Articles Tagged with #crushesonstrangers
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Spoofs & Satire
A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Probably Do Again
Yesterday morning, a plane landed at an airport. A man who was or was not a famous actor, and a writer who was or was not in love with him, stood on the verge of finally meeting. A Valentine’s Day story for the romantic and/or foolish at heart.
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Crushes on Strangers
Just My Imagination
A short list of people I’ve had a crush on since starting this column: the bagger at Whole Foods with the body of a lumberjack, dark reddish hair...
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Crushes on Strangers
That Girl
I did not know the woman in question, though her face was plastered all around New York at the time, and my friend certainly wasn’t the only one...
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Crushes on Strangers
The Contradiction
Not surprisingly, the crush Wikipedia page is quite robust. There is the movie with Alicia Silverstone. There is a Dave Matthews song (of course). There is a Mates of State...
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Crushes on Strangers
The Married Man
That is well and good, but my own suggestion is that you never get a crush on a married person. It’s trouble. Leave it alone. My married...
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Crushes on Strangers
Yeah, You Know Him
And yet, I sat in the dark theater and felt a planetary pull toward him. I went all hot and melty during a scene in which he did little but...
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Crushes on Strangers
My New Resolution
“Get the nerve,” she wrote back. Actually she wrote: “GET THE NERVE.” It was typical that I couldn’t just join a dating site&mdash...
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Crushes on Strangers
The Man of Action
I knew Thomas would have a plan. Thomas is a man of action, not a woman of romance and longing like me. I get a crush, and that is the...
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Crushes on Strangers
In My Back Pocket, With the Maps
I had decided to go to South America in part because I didn't have a boyfriend. That sounds so lame, particularly in the face of the cooing admiration I...
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Crushes on Strangers
Nice Ignoring You
The cute guy had come to my previous class, and placed his mat directly across from mine. He had hooded lids, a football team captain’s smile and a...
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Crushes on Strangers
Safely, From a Distance
“Tell us a little about yourself.” Gulp. I stared at the blinking cursor, writing phrases only to erase them. I could not shake the thought that my answers...
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Crushes on Strangers
A Short Taxonomy of My Crushes
Except I usually don’t do any of that. I just feel the flutter in my heart, and wonder why this person, of all people, made it happen. Brown-Eyed...