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        Hopeless Romantic (770) 460-2224<br/>Tags: hopeless romantic<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/289654">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Hopeless Romantic Wedd Conslnt (248) 684-0734<br/>Tags: hopeless romantic<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/289655">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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         Bar (305) 866-7111<br/>Tags: hopeless romantic<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/289656">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        1st Classic Limo and Limousine of Palo Alto (888) 817-3755<br/>Tags: hopeless romantic, mines, french american international school, palo alto airport<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1302742">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        comforter-style picnic blankets, whiskey in plastic bottles and secret romances that shouldn't have happened but did. we watched one heck of an amazing meteor shower  at sunnyside park lying on the grass, stayed up late just to see the stars fall down. a  slow sticky august a few years ago. this boy and i still don't speak to eachother any more. still the only person i ever dated that won't talk to me. frankly i dont blame him at all.<br/>Tags: hopeless romantic, whiskey, lazy, meteor showers, ephemera<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3087">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        we fought (again) i tried to blow it off, pretend like everything was fine. tried making you watch near dark with me but you were tense and wanted to talk. we talked and i cried. i sat on your lap and told you i loved you and gave you litle kisses on your cheeks.
later we watched the snow fall. hidded behind the curtains no one could tell what we were doing, things felt good again and afterwards you were feeling better<br/>Tags: love, kisses, hopeless romantic<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4895">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        i had just moved to portland and i was sleeping on the floor. 9 skater boys, a skate ramp in the basement and you and me. our house was on ash street and everyone got along great. you were letting me share your bed and i was grateful, i liked you but it was complicated. eveyone liked you. when you died in the car wreck two weeks later everyone was shocked. i freaked out and bought 100$ worth of groceries for your roommates. i was in shock. sean, matt and greg planted a tree for you in laurelhurst shortly after.<br/>Tags: kisses, hopeless romantic<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4898">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        you forgot i was left handed. gave me the glove to play catch with and then we both laughed and realized. you took it back and got me a pretty black left handed mitt. we played catch in the park. i thought it seemed silly, i was laughing out loud and chasing the balls all over. you didnt even get mad when i hit your leg. it was the most fun i had on a date ever. i still think playing catch is fun. <br/>Tags: romantic, hopeless romantic, playing<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4935">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        We would spend hours driving around the winding narrow streets between the tiny old villages south of Lisbon where you grew up and still live. You drove like a demon, cutting corners at 50 miles an hour, and wildly swerving around old grandmothers walking slowly across  streets in front of the car. You were my only companion for the two months I lived in Portugal. We met each night but never once spoke on the phone. I hated your driving, hated the way you drove fast and furious  making me cry and hide in my seat. You loved to scare me. Laughing good naturedly at my terror until I cried and then pulling the car over. You would mumble a thousand apologies, kiss my hands and face and repeat the word for "Joke" over and over while stifling giggles.
It was a nightly ritual, I would sit all day reading by myself and wait for you to get off of work and then we would drive aimlessly. There was nowhere to be and no one to care what we did. I couldn't speak a lick of Portuguese and you spoke no English at all. For two months we talked with our hands, our bodies, our eyes and our kisses. 

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        not a good kiss. a sloppy half-drunken unexpected kiss. he was a co-worker and he had offered to take me to a strip club for the first time. we got drunk of course and i ran screaming off into the cemetary and he followed. he probably thought it was romantic, i just wanted to run drunken through a cemetary. never even saw the kiss coming. i dont think either of us ever mentioned it again. <br/>Tags: kisses, cemetaries, hopeless romantic<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/3062">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        i made you a paper mache bat and i am going to make it into a mobile<br/>Tags: romantic, christmas, me, kisses, hopeless romantic, hopeless, you, said, wouldnt, let, down<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/4936">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        You loved to drink here so I decided I would learn to love to drink. We both got so good at this, we'd sit here nightly and drink until our vision blurred and we stumbled, giggling half a block back to your apartment. I became a "regular".
Eventually they hired me to wait tables, which I did for exactly 8 months before the alcohol, stress and our constant fighting wore me out completely. Even though I made more money than I had ever made in my whole life. The doctor told me that if I didn't stop drinking the way I was that I would be in serious trouble. I developed edema in both ankles and put on 10 pounds. You were fine, never better. <br/>Tags: kisses, hopeless romantic, romance<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/7095">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        i was putting vinyl heart and seashell stickers on street signs and telephone poles. gave you a handfull to stick as well then i asked you if you wanted to go for a walk. standing and looking at the cars race i tried to steal a kiss. earlier i had fallen down the rain soaked front porch stairs right in front of you. i was so embarassed, i even tried to say i did it on purpose.<br/>Tags: romantic, kisses, hopeless romantic<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/7116">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Hirsch, Stuart E MD - Eye Associates of Bucks County (215) 757-6200<br/>Tags: hopeless romantic, 10 27<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/289660">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Cafe De France (972) 423-2323<br/>Tags: hopeless romantic, france<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/289663">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        At the free spot near the dumpster on 34th and Belmont I stumbled across your soaking wet clothes, shoes and some other things you had left out for people after you moved out of your house. Spent a few minutes going through your stuff and saw things I had seen you wear once or twice. Missed you so much at that moment I could feel it in my bones. It reminded me of death somehow.<br/>Tags: clothes, hopeless romantic, romance<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/31789">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        My live-in boyfriend always picked me up at the bus stop after work.  That day I thought the worst thing I had to think about was what to make for dinner that night.  Instead of hugging me as I got off the bus like usual, he grabbed my arm and said, "I'm not breaking up with you, but when we get home, you'll see I've already started to move out."  I was shocked beyond belief.  It was just 2 days after Christmas.  He had planned it beforehand, and never ever let on that anything was wrong.<br/>Tags: hopeless romantic<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/36063">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        We had been secretly seeing eachother for over a year. Even though I lived 8 hours away and you were married and I had a live-in lover. We saw eachother rarely. But talked on the phone for hours at least once a week-- conversations I had a hard time explaining. 
I was in NYC, your wife was out of town. We were in the bathroom and Portishead was playing. I remember being terrified that we would get caught even thought I knew it was impossible. Later on I took a cab to Union Station to catch my bus even though you gave me subway directions and told me I would be fine. I walked in the station and then walked right back out again. I bought the album as soon as I got home. I still think of you everytime I hear it even though it's 12 years later.<br/>Tags: nyc, hopeless romantic, portishead, cab fare, too young to know better, f.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/40442">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Sarah Hopkins and I went together, the house was two blocks away. I was in my "I wish I looked like Lisa Bonet phase" (circa Cosby Show era). Oversized dark mens tweed jacket, lots of buttons, lots of black, and long hair in my face. Being 14, I had little experience with high-school keggers and I got drunk very fast. I went upstairs to lie down and ended up walking in on you hanging out by yourself listening to records-old Genesis and Diecide I think. We started talking and in true drunken teenage fashion started making out. You told me you loved me. We dated for 2 and 1/2 years.  You were my first real boyfriend. I was your first.<br/>Tags: hopeless romantic, utica, lincoln, s.l., old genesis, house parties, random drunken hookups that work out<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/40444">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        In the summer of 92-93, instead of driving to work one beautiful sunny day, I had biked to work.  Unknowingly, my girlfriend decided to drive into town to see me for the last time without letting me know ahead of time.  When I came home to discover the note under the door saying that she tried to see me, I cursed myself for the bad luck of just missing her but also the fear that she had the impression I was hiding in my apartment since my car was parked in the front (I hardly go anywhere without my car).  I tried multiple times to call her but would always miss her.  As expected, shortly after that day, she moved out of the state.  The note she left under my door was the last message that was ever said between the two of us.  It still troubles me that I didn't have the chance to wish her well and to tell her that she can still count on me as a friend wherever she might be.  For that I am sorry.  This is not the closure I wished to end on after 4 wonderful years together.  We knew our paths would invariably diverge in different paths early on because of the different stages in life we were at.<br/>Tags: mistake, hopeless romantic, lost love, goodbye, last message, coincidence<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/45094">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:creator>platialUser:zilch1000</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2006-03-24 04:00:31.241532+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Sheraton Maui Hotel</title>
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        Sheraton Maui Hotel (808) 661-0031<br/>Tags: hopeless romantic<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1726746">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:creator>platialUser:system</dc:creator>
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<title>Villa Cucina</title>
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        Villa Cucina (949) 388-7512<br/>Tags: hopeless romantic<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1726748">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:creator>platialUser:system</dc:creator>
<dc:date>1997-01-01 00:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Photo Essence Photography</title>
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        Photo Essence Photography (920) 470-7819<br/>Tags: hopeless romantic<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/1726750">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>*Hot* girl at the video store</title>
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        <FONT COLOR="#777777">[October 29, 2006]</FONT> Lines flit through my head, after I've already left.

"Take care of yourself. You've got a good thing going; don't spoil it."

"It's good to know you exist."

And my old favorite, "I like your... everything. It's very nice. All of it."

To me, delivering cheesy lines I've just thought of is often more fun than actual flirting. This isn't the shit I say when I'm seriously hitting on someone; this is what I say to a random pretty girl, and then leave, laughing at myself.

But sometimes I deliver these lines in a way that gets *quite* a positive response, which usually confuses me. When I'm in the right mood, I can <i>own</i> my cheesy pick-up lines.

It reminds me of my friend Mike the Aussie, who was once reading a newspaper on a subway and noticed a pretty girl watching him from across the train, as well as a guy behind her staring at his paper. He took out a marker and wrote, "You are very, very good-looking. (No, not the dude.)" on his paper, and held it up so she'd see it when he went back to reading the paper. Mike could sell *any* line.<br/>Tags: hopeless romantic<br /><br /><a href="http://www.platial.com/post/870259">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:creator>platialUser:dj10ninjas</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2006-12-16 19:35:04.193876+00:00</dc:date>
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