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"Types: most of us have them. It&amp;#39;s normal to have a certain &amp;quot;look&amp;quot; or personality trait you&amp;#39;re most attracted to, but is it better for us to break outside the guy-mold once in a while?\nPinterestFacebookPHOTO: www.jupiterimages.com/unlimitedOK, so the whole thing about pheromones might not have as much to do with our dating selections as we previously thought. Still, if smells don&amp;#39;t have all that much to do with it (apart from Polo Black, which is basically a mating call in liquid form) it sure seems that &amp;quot;types&amp;quot; do. Over and over, many of us are drawn to very similar kinds of guys. Is it a good thing, or are our types out to get us?\nGenerally speaking, I&amp;#39;m drawn more to guys with dark hair than light hair. Plenty of blond guys are cute (you know my feelings on Ryan Gosling), but in a proverbial sea of men, they&amp;#39;re not the ones that I swim toward first. Actually I&amp;#39;m more like a sea anemone in this scenario, wavering back and forth and nervously eating any snacks that float by. But, um, anyway...\nI have a friend who&amp;#39;s into guys that look like they walked off the set of Jersey Shore. I have another who&amp;#39;s mainly into sweet-talking and emotionally unavailable hippies. I personally seem to have a &amp;quot;reformed bad boy&amp;quot; (with dark hair) problem. It&amp;#39;s not that there&amp;#39;s anything inherently wrong with any of these types of guys, but guess how often they&amp;#39;ve worked out for my friends and me so far? Zero percent of the time.\nOf course, that&amp;#39;s not a statistical study. The girls and I are still out there, collecting data. When we&amp;#39;ve finished dating every last available guy in each of our preferred types, I&amp;#39;ll report back with the results. It could be a while.\nWhat do you think? Do you have a type, and has it worked out well for you? Do you think it&amp;#39;s important to try to date outside the box?\nKatie Heaney is a writer and dedicated text message analyst in Minneapolis. Follow her on Twitter @KTHeaney.More Ways to Get Glamour:\n*NEW! Now You Can Read Glamour on Flipboard!\nVisit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10!\nDownload Glamour Magazine for your iPad--print subscribers, it&amp;#39;s now part of your subscription plan!\nEnter the latest Glamour sweepstakes!\nFollow us on Twitter.*\nPhoto: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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