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Women don't want all that. Women just want a partner who is considerate and attentive, who will spoon with them while reciting Keats, and feed them organic yogurt by candlelight on a seaside cliff at sunset.

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Sarah Vowell

But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there's my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe approaching me for directions, telemarketers always ask if my mother is home, and waitresses always, always call me 'Hon.

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I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

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I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to "wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water". . . the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.

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Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

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I spent a lot of time with some native Hawaiians who protest being part of the United States and literally carry protest signs saying "We are not Americans. " And they have no real warmth for being the 50th state.

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Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

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