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"I always joke that if we were in a sorority together, Melissa would be my Big Sis. She always jokes that she wants to beat the sorority out of me. Last night I went out with my good friend Melissa. I met her at a bar after her dentist appointment, which happened to be in midtown&amp;amp;#8212;not her style at all. I walked in and said, &amp;amp;#8220;Did you see the hotties in the front?&amp;amp;#8221; and she was like, &amp;amp;#8220;Get me out of here. Everyone has the same haircut and suit jacket.&amp;amp;#8221; And I was like, &amp;amp;#8220;We&amp;amp;#8217;re staying!&amp;amp;#8221; I&amp;amp;#8217;m so mainstream like that. We started talking about how we used to meet tons of men when we were in our early- to mid-twenties. Now I never meet anyone. It&amp;amp;#8217;s weird. Perhaps it&amp;amp;#8217;s because I&amp;amp;#8217;m constantly sitting one-on-one in a booth with a married friend or someone who&amp;amp;#8217;s not looking. Often, I just want to catch up with my girls, and I can&amp;amp;#8217;t help that they&amp;amp;#8217;re not looking. Nowadays it feels like you have to specify with friends beforehand that you will be going out to look at or talk to men, and you won&amp;amp;#8217;t be spending the whole time catching up. You have to articulate your mission and agree on the agenda&amp;amp;#133;because looking at strange men is no longer the norm. Insanity! I&amp;amp;#8217;m just wondering what has changed&amp;amp;#8212;the bars I go to, the people I meet up with, me, or the men in my age group? Is the pool shrinking? If so, then I need to go back to the college bars like Brother Jimmy&amp;amp;#8217;s and Fiddlesticks, and no one can judge me, because they don&amp;amp;#8217;t realize&amp;amp;#8212;that&amp;amp;#8217;s where the most boys/men are! They aren&amp;#x27;t anywhere else! Everyone likes to poo-poo my divey bar choices, but I&amp;#x27;m telling you, that&amp;#x27;s where the men are. Are you noticing the same extinction phenomenon? If not, where are you going out when you meet men? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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