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"Every time I&amp;amp;#8217;m dating a guy I&amp;#x27;ve met online, I always think, &amp;amp;#8220;Is this the story I&amp;amp;#8217;ll have to tell for life? He checked the &amp;amp;#8216;interested&amp;amp;#8217; box and then we emailed?&amp;amp;#8221; When I&amp;amp;#8217;m dating someone I met because a friend introduced me, at least there&amp;amp;#8217;s the whole angle of &amp;amp;#8220;My friend thought we were both such outstanding people with wildly striking similarities&amp;amp;#133;&amp;amp;#8221; So I had to laugh when I read on Jezebel about a woman lamenting her &amp;amp;#8220;how we met&amp;amp;#8221; story. The writer says she met her guy at a bar, and whenever she re-tells it, she considers lying, only because she herself loves a good story and &amp;amp;#8220;it&amp;#x27;s galling to have to consistently disappoint.&amp;amp;#8221; I am guilty of wanting to be able to tell a serendipitous, oh-they-must-be-meant-for-each-other tale. A narrative where there&amp;amp;#8217;s nothing random about it&amp;amp;#8212;it&amp;amp;#8217;s so fabulously against all odds that everyone who hears it knows you&amp;amp;#8217;re just meant to be together. Isn&amp;amp;#8217;t that silly? Seriously. I would rather meet a guy while touring in Italy and suddenly finding his lost luggage and there&amp;#x27;s chemistry but someone else has to translate and&amp;amp;#133; Oh, brother. I should just worry about meeting a guy period. The plot points and scenery, be damned! Do you love telling your &amp;amp;#8220;how we met story&amp;amp;#8221;? What&amp;amp;#8217;s your ideal &amp;amp;#8220;how we met&amp;amp;#8221; scenario? What if you&amp;amp;#8217;d met on a reality TV dating show? Does anyone love telling an online dating &amp;quot;how we met&amp;quot; story? More Ways to Get Glamour: Take Our Survey and You Could Win an iTunes Gift Card! Hey Glamour fans, we need your advice. We want to know what&amp;amp;#8217;s important to you when it comes to Glamour and all things digital&amp;amp;#8212;what do you like most? What do you want to see more of? How and where do you want to read all that fun stuff? Please take our survey. As a special thank-you for sharing, you will be entered to win one of 45 iTunes gift cards for taking the survey! See rules for details. Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Download Glamour Magazine for your iPad! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter! Add us to your iGoogle homepage. Photo: Jupiterimages"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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