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"Here&amp;amp;#8217;s a tip for singletons who need help deciding if they&amp;#x27;re ready for a relationship: go to Ikea. I was riding my bike by the new location in Brooklyn and decided to pop in and grab some picture frames. What I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t realize is you don&amp;amp;#8217;t &amp;amp;#8220;pop in&amp;amp;#8221; to Ikea; you immerse yourself. The place is massive and teeming with nesting couples. At first the whole scene made me feel a little lonely&amp;amp;#8212;I&amp;amp;#8217;m 27 years-old and have never lived with a woman (although my roommate Scruff certainly has, um, feminine tendencies). But then I took out my earphones and realized that many of the Susie and Sammy Homemakers weren&amp;amp;#8217;t as happy as they first appeared. A sample quote: &amp;amp;#8220;Are you serious? I wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t wear that lampshade on my head after after ten kamikaze shots.&amp;amp;#8221; I left with a bag of frames and a new-found appreciation for my independence. Hooray for dating sabbaticals! But that wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t my only exciting activity this weekend&amp;amp;#8212;I also sat around by myself on Friday and watched TV. Sounds lame, but one of my favorite movies happened to be on, and it raised a very interesting question I want to ask all of you.Game Night! On Sunday I had people over for Trivial Pursuit. Who knew you could have so much fun outside of a bar?The movie was Coming to America, the Eddie Murphy classic about an African prince who moves to Queens and pretends to be a goat herder in order to find a woman loves him for the right reasons. In between laughs, I realized that I&amp;amp;#8217;ve never dated anyone outside of my social strata, which I&amp;amp;#8217;d describe as middle class. Most of the women I&amp;amp;#8217;m attracted to are like me&amp;amp;#8212;college-educated, liberal and accustomed to the comforts of life. I&amp;amp;#8217;ve never hooked up with a socialite or a high school drop-out. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not that I&amp;amp;#8217;m against inter-class dating&amp;amp;#8212;in fact, I&amp;amp;#8217;m totally for it&amp;amp;#8212;but it would be tough forging a relationship with someone from a dramatically different economic background. Have you ever dated someone much richer or poorer than you? How did it work out? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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