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“You think relationships are difficult? Try friendships. Try courting someone in order to convince them to join you in some nameless, shapeless Platonic complication — forever. Convince an adult stranger that you are worth a healthy slice of their limited time and energy without the prize of sex or romance.”

Laura Jayne Martin {via}

Yes, making new friends (and now that I'm older) is tough. 

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Congratulations are in order for good ol' Knoxville! Apparently Amazon.com has ranked Knoxville as the #2 most romantic city in the US.  After compiling sales data of romance novels and relationship books (Kindle Books and print books), romantic comedy movies (digital movies and DVDs), Barry White albums (CDs and MP3s), along with sexual wellness products, since Jan. 1 of this year on a per capita basis in cities with more than 100,000 residents, Knoxville was the most improved and zoomed up from number 14 to number 2! woot woot! so I bet we can all expect a good V-Day.{via}