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Music The
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affairs to remember.
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Instead, we have breakfast at 7am and affairs we try to forget as quickly as possible.
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Self -protection and closing the deal are paramount.
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Cupid has flown the co -op.
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How the hell did we get into this mess?
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We all know them, and we all agree they're great.
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They...
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It's like the riddle of the sphinx.
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Why are there so many great unmarried women and no great unmarried men?
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I explore these sorts of issues in my column, and I have terrific sources, my friends. Was it true?
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Were women in New York really giving up on love and throttling up on power?
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What a tempting thought.
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It was Kurt Harrington.
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A mistake I made when I was 26. And 29. And 31.
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Carrie.
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Kurt.
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Wow, what are you doing here?
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Hey, babe.
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Better.
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Because this time, there will be none of that messy emotional attachment.
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I left feeling powerful, potent, and incredibly alive.
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I felt like I owned the city.
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Nothing and no one could get in my way.
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And I don't objectif - um...
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Maybe.
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City's most notoriously un -gettable bachelors.
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Bye.
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Alright, bye.
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Later.
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Hopeless situation.
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And I thought how great.
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No, I've never seen - Taxi!
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Have you ever been in love?
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Last night, my friend Miranda got invited to a dinner party by a man she hardly...
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Modelizers are womanizers who will sleep with just about anything.
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As if we didn't have enough problems.
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There's nothing like...
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It's way easier to screw...
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It's kind of like being around dogs. Do you overweight?
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Sure.
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Your friend Miranda?
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You're kidding, that's great!
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Yeah, I think...
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Hi.
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I told her you won't call me back.
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I believe there is a curse put on the head of anybody who tries to fix up their friends.
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Blatch had a client in the hottest show in town.
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So beautiful that he travels with his own personal.
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Carrie writes the column section.
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You know, the other day, Derek and I were on a sea of sweet potato puffs with smoked salmon and sour cream when...
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Where are you going now?
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Oh, I'm going home.
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Can I come?
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You want to come home with me?
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Sure, if it's quiet.
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I can't take these crowds.
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The things you gotta do in the name of research.
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Ain't with some girl from the show?
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I began to realize that being beautiful is like having a rent -controlled apartment overlooking the park.
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Completely unfair and usually bestowed upon those who deserve it least.
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I'm not...
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...is forever.
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My friend Patience and her husband invited me.
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They were fun, smart, and they looked like they fell out of a J .Crew catalog.
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If their house wasn't right on the beach, I would have hated them.
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House guests are always when I woke up feeling rested and fabulous.
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There he was.
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Full frontal friend.
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Hey.
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Was Miranda right?
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Were we enemies? Is there a...
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It's not a Cold War.
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It's an out -and -out battle.
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And it isn't just straight people.
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Every gay guy I know is running off to Hawaii, putting on a caftan, reciting vows, and feeling superior to me.
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...Lennium.
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I was no longer even considered a person.
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Miranda gave me the lowdown on her day.
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So you think...
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Maybe the Cold War isn't about hate.
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They just want us...
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Oh, yeah.
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...if they were true.
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Hey, this is our friend Carrie.
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Hi, another time I hate being...
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I met him to pick out a top -of -the -line cheese grater at Williams -Sonoma.
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My buddies are giving...
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It's all me...
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After another chance meeting... At a...
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Something came up.
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How pathetic... To us...
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Is the hottest shit...
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Busboys, bouncers...
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Time Sunday crossword puzzle.
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Tricky, complicated, and you're never really sure you got the right answer.
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What's it like to kiss with that?
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You want to find out?
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The really good kisser guy.
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John, no age, no inhibitions.
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We did it with him on top.
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Ours.
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At the couldn't help but wonder, what do they see in us?
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Later that week, Miranda and I compared notes.
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Shouldn't we be dating men our own age?
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Good luck finding one.
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There are no available men in their 30s in New York.
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Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.
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I didn't want to tell her I canceled lunch with my editor to go to Banana Republic
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and help him be more than a fling.
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Could he be a potential boyfriend?
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Please.
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This isn't the gap.
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Sorry, honey.
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And speaking of Lank, not quite a date.
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...but will he respect you more or respect you less?
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That's the issue.
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No, no smoking gap.
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Sir, we're talking up the butt.
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A cigarette is in order.
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...place.
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There he was.
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Abso -fucking -lutely.
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to walk to clear my head.
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Also, I just left my cab fare on the table.
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So I walked.
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I walked 48 blocks in $400 shoes.
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And it was surrounded by, like, my enemies and shit.
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And one by one...
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I decided the only way to break free was to move from one addiction to an even bigger one.
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Shoes.
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A couple of blocks and way too much money later, I realized I had just entered an interesting chapter in my life.
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I had outgrown the boys of my past and not quite grown into the men of my future.
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Maybe all men are a drug.
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Something now.
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They get you so high.
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Damn.
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It would have been so cool if I hadn't looked back.
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Doesn't she know who we are?
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Who are we?
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Let me tell you something.
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I was that woman ten years ago, but I wielded my power in a benevolent manner.
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Samantha headed back to her office
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while I decided to investigate this theory I had about shopping as a way to unleash the creative subconscious All right,
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I'm gonna take them this gigantic ranch in Argentina.
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I mean you are like a I couldn't understand a word she was saying,
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but I felt I had in my possession all the Italian I'd ever need to know Dolce, Dolce, Dolce.
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She didn't actually work for a living, yet possessed a dazzling sexual power that she exploited to her full advantage, which presented a certain conundrum.
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Where's the line between professional girlfriend and just plain professional?
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Hold his brush if he's so much 11.
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Aww, he's like a suing forward to calling it an early night when...
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I rationalized that my new shoes shouldn't be punished just because I can't budget.
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Hi.
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I'm an advanced cleaner.
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Oh, what?
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Caddy, I'd like you to meet my boyfriend, Carmen.
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You'd like another bottle of wine?
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Wonderful.
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And what will the rest of you be having?
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My daughter, Beatrice, who lived with her mother in Paris.
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I think you're too charming to me.
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Well, I think it's really important that you try.
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I don't even sh - Later, I s - Or these days.
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Since I was there once, I was as good as in.
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I don't understand.
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Ah, Katie, Katie, ciao!
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Ciao!
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Gini qua!
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Come here!
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They all looked so chic and glamorous.
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Part of me wanted to grab Samantha and make a run for it.
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Mario's family has one of those gorgeous...
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I couldn't say I wasn't tempted, but from that moment on, we never had a problem getting a table at Balzac again.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but in this case, two weeks ago, I had my picture taken.
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It was a promotional photo for my column scheduled to run on the side of a bus.
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I had misgivings, which were somewhat mollified when they told me I could keep the dress.
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Oh, honey, it's fabulous.
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Bravo!
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It's tits on toast, baby, but you make it work.
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Well, let's just say it.
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All right, well, ladies, I'm just going to dinner.
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Good night.
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Bye.
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The truth is, I was dying to sleep with him, but isn't delayed gratification the definition of maturity?
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Interesting dress.
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Meaning?
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Interesting dress.
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...versionary tactic to keep me from spending the night.
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Before I was able to completely indulge...
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I'll tell you that later.
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Tell you later.
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Hey, that's fantastic.
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No, it's too quick.
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I think maybe that kick in his head scrambled his brains.
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Now, two Mike Singer out on a date.
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But she's warm and unpretentious.
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But the question nagged me for days.
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...is out there are having great sex, with people who are ashamed to...
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The one who doesn't wear any underwear?
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I met this gorgeous kid in Spy Bar last year.
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He turned out to be in high school.
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Was secret sex the ultimate form of intimacy, since it existed in a pure state exempt from the judgment of the world? Or is...
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I was out with a man whose name I wanted to shout from the rooftops.
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I also tried not to let it bother me that he took me back to Fung Wa, scene of our post -coital dinner.
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As I surveyed Latin, why did you take Libby to Fung Wa?
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And take women they don't want to be seen with in public?
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Everything's done in the house, and I've been doing it all day.
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I don't know what to do.
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I can't...
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Oh, don't worry, sweetie.
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Don't worry.
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I mean, nobody in New York notices a bus.
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Fueled by a massive quantity of champagne, I decided to say goodbye to Mr. Big.
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I just came here to tell you that if you're embarrassed or ashamed to be involved with me in any way...
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Beginning to know more.
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...us.
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Four -hour converse, few days apart, felt like...
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Hi!
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I'm trying to get hold of a Miss Carrie Bradshaw.
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She used to be a friend of mine.
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Good morning.
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That night, I faced the tribunal.
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We really weren't that concerned.
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Just completely hurt and offended.
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Actually, you missed a lot.
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I think this might be the one.
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A few hours and a couple of bottles of Pinot Grigio later, vows of friendship renewed.
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We were almost out the door when...
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Hey, isn't that Mr. Bick?
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Surprise.
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Hey.
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Are you on a date?
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Then enjoy your dinner.
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Oh, already said that.
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Well, enjoy it twice.
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All right, here we go.
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I can't believe it.
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He's seen other women.
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Rick.
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...overstuffed suitcase.
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Big was happily dating another woman like it was the most natural thing in the world.
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Is it that men have an innate aversion to monogamy? or is it more than that?
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It's list with cosmopolitics.
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Monogamy is on the way out again.
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You couldn't commit to a nice guy given the option.
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I can't even commit to it.
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My book just got a kick -ass review.
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Oh, Carrie, Jared is the writer of the book Avenue B.
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And New York Magazine just named list.
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You're quite the storyteller, aren't you?
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What was happening to me?
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I used to get a secret rush from men who hit on me during their 15 minutes of fame.
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In this case, it merely felt exhausting.
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I was striving for noncommittal, but I was worried I had just bordered on shrill.
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Yeah, it's fine.
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I am telling you I lived in...
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International, right?
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I didn't think...
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Internationally, I would imagine.
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Much, ma 'am.
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Ah, thank you, Max.
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Thank you.
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Come on honey, what do you want from me?
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What do I want from you?
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Nothing.
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I don't want anything from you.
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I have to go, I'm sorry.
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I felt like a fool.
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I had gone so far out on a limb with my feelings that I didn't realize I was standing out there alone.
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When life gets this confusing, sometimes there's only one thing to do.
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Attend a fabulous party.
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Hey, Sam.
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In a room where everyone was gorgeous, cool, and under 30, monocamy suddenly began to seem like a quaint notion.
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And I already had a new man in my life.
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You know, the greatest thing about writing a successful book, besides the validation and the acclaim, is knowing that I'm pumping my ideas into the world.
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I thought it was the fact that you could behave like an utter asshole and people would find you amusing.
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And he just put his arms around me.
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45 minutes later, I realized I was alone in a park at 3 a .m.
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and that it was time to call it a night.
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What are you doing back here?
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You said to meet out front.
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This is the front.
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Do you want to stand still with me?
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You know, sex.
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Any sex, period.
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Don't let him pressure you into it.
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Oh, come on, of course.
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Was Samantha right?
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Threesomes.
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Fat, low -fat, non -fat.
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First, business economy.
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Moe Larry Curley.
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And I think I enjoyed it.
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That's great.
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Dreams are a really good way to experiment.
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It's like buying a dress and keeping the tags on.
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Do you think it means I should do it?
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The Village Voice had more ads looking for threesomes than it
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did for small rat -infested studios running at 1 ,000 a month.
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But who actually answered these ads?
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I seem to be the only person in New York who still believed in the one -on -one relationship.
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Mr. Big and I were actually doing sleepovers.
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You better be careful.
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I could get used to this.
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Why is it that putting a time...
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Charlotte was right.
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We don't really know the people we sleep with.
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After all, what did I really know about Mr. Big?
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Except he had an ex -wife named Barbara who I quickly discovered worked in publishing.
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My plan was simple.
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I'd pitch her a steamy bodice ripping paper bag, which she'd probably reject, but at least I'd get five minutes face to face with her.
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Oh, who doesn't love children's books?
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It was the last straw.
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Today, the flesh and blood Barbara asked me to lunch.
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Hi.
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Inviting me.
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Wow.
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Oh.
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Well, friends.
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Four Chardonnays later, I was Mr. Big for eight days.
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Well, that was a great meal.
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Yeah, it was.
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Actually, the food was terrible and we were...
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You know, the reason we had the threesome is because we were both looking for something or someone else.
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Oh, ta -ta.
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Your friend is gorgeous.
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What do I have to do to get to know her better? Who cares?
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Two hours later...
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Political asylum?
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Sweetheart, he's a man on a brownstone.
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Honey, when I'm through with him, he'll be Gracie Mansion.
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Samantha and the turtle?
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But then again, I'm dating a man who will never get married, and Miranda's having a meaningful relationship with something that comes in a box from Japan.
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In a city of great expectations, is it time to settle for what you can get?
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And that's a good thing.
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What's that supposed to mean?
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Oh, just, um, I mean, just means you're, you're, I meant you're happy with Alan, right?
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Hey, listen, um, I hope I didn't give you the wrong idea.
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I, I think Alan's great.
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I just, I mean, throw around a frisbee.
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Oh, look who's here.
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Hey, you!
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Brooke left with a better gift, and I left wondering if everyone in my...
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Oh, see, you've been using it.
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Yeah.
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It's not illegal.
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Yeah, but no man ever did that.
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The costume's so romantic.
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You only like it because she gets to sleep for a hundred years and...
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How you talking?
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Friday night at the ballet with a man who shared...
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What are you going to do about sex?
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I have you.
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That night, Miranda and I had plans to join...
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Hello?
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Gary, it's Charlotte.
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I have a lot of nerve coming in here.
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You're the one who made me get it.
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I thought you could...
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You're right.
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It's a career woman.
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Dinner.
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I knew I would have to break the news to Mr. Being happy for somebody else.
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like lottery winners or extremely successful people who are 20...
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Help me.
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She bucks on my couch, she buys it.
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Healthy way by eating a box of double stuffed Oreos.
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She's so sad.
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Samantha and Lainey had a long -standing dinner at Moomba.
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They're at Saturday, also known as Seven Days Late.
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Ready, girls?
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Let's go.
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Tearing off rockstar's pants.
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This long to have a baby, that name would be mine.
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Oh, Charlotte, come on, you're still young.
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You have plenty of time to have children.
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No. No. ...test till I knew exactly how I felt about the results.
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Either way.
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PHONE RINGS Hello?
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It's Lainey.
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Oh, hi.
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Yeah.
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Oh, man.
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See, that's the kind of thing.
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I love Samantha's party.
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Why didn't you tell me?
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Yes, I am, but not quite as much fun as Miranda.
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Fox on that couch.
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She buys it.
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...but the next hour keeping Charlotte away from Lainey and Lainey away from the vodka.
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Well, well, what...
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Um, is she seeing anybody?
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Wide open.
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Just don't mention the name Shayla.
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Sorry?
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Little thing, it's a private joke.
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Go forth.
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And sit down.
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What the hell?
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Where's Mar?
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Somebody get me a drink!
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Oh, I don't know, lady.
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I spent the entire next day sitting on a park bench.
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Somehow managed to stay me.
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Hello.
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Oh, my.
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Oh, sorry.
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That's okay.
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She's adorable.
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Yeah, most of the time.
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You want to go home?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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On the way home, I got my period.
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I do manage to get someone in bed.
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The real fun.
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It was nice.
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It was the way I'd always dreamed it could be.
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Hey, don't you want some coffee?
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Oh, gosh, I'm late for a thing.
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Oh, my God, I was mortified.
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I didn't call in the rest of the day.
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I tried to lose myself in work, but every time I stopped for a second to think, Oh, my God.
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I'd relive my hell all over again.
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The next day, I realized how childish I was behaving.
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I decided to stop avoiding the situation and take...
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...of the next week.
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It was three times in a row, and I was...
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I can't believe you said that.
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You're...
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I thought you said everything felt really comfortable and great.
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Yeah, well, maybe too comfortable.
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What do you mean?
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I farted.
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I farted in front of my boyfriend. And?
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And we're no longer having sex.
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And he thinks of me as one of the boys.
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And I'm going to have to move to another city where the shame of this won't follow me.
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You farted.
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You're human.
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I don't want him to know that.
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I mean...
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Every hour on the hour.
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Do you think it means something if Big and I are sleeping together, but...
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I farted.
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Then move your mat away.
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Not now.
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I did it in front of Big.
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The next night when I met Charlotte for dinner, I had reached my own transcendental state.
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Hi.
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What if you...
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Isn't that funny?
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Terrified of going to Mr. Big's for what could become another platonic sleepover, I paced my apartment and tried not to think about our lack of sex when...
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There they were, my new neighbors.
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Mr. and Mrs. Get It On.
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A couple so obviously into each other, there was only one thing to do.
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Watch.
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Then something wonderful happened.
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My desire overcame my fear.
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Hi, it's me.
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Is it okay if I come over?
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Okay.
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I showed up at his apartment feeling sexy and confident, wearing my secret weapon skirt that really hugged my hips.
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I was right to go.
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He didn't have a...
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I stood there and waited for the obligatory, he's coming to stop me ten seconds.
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He didn't.
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By the time I got home, I was sure he'd left an apology on my voicemail.
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You have no new messages.
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Like every woman consumed with a relationship problem, I needed a project to keep my mind from obsessing and my hands from dialing his number.
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I just, I think I'm in love with him and I'm.. terrified that he's gonna leave me because I'm not perfect.
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Still...
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Surprise.
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Yeah.
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Floors need to be stripped and the curtains are...
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Why aren't we having sex?
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Is this normal?
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My friend Miranda was dating Thomas John Anderson and up in...
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Retro -baptism kind of thing?
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It's me.
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If I'd known he was Catholic, I never would have gone out with him in the first place.
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They should make them wear a sign.
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Single people in New York rarely ask about their date's religious backgrounds.
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Clean.
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He forgot clean.
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He's a clean guy.
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Leave it to me to find the only religious guy.
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In the church of be nice to people and don't talk with your mouth full, I decided to check out some more traditional religious types in their natural ha...
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God bless.
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It was one of those awkward relationship moments where you feel like you know nothing about the person you thought...
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He goes to church with his mother.
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Park Avenue Presbyterian.
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A time for spine.
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The plan was simple.
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Just get a look at the mother, then Miranda and I would go for eggs.
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Look at how crowded it is.
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What a sham.
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Oh, will you lighten up?
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It's a Presbyterian church, not a Catholic one.
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Whatever.
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Catholics, Episcopalians, Buddhists, Shakers, Quakers.
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Get in here.
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You receive your blessing.
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And that of our Lord and Savior.
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Thank you.
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Break for it.
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No, no, no, they saw me.
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I have to say hello.
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I have to say hello.
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Flippery gloves.
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Carrie!
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Hi!
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Carrie!
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Also, he wanted to show off his new boyfriend.
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Did I tell you that Alain designed the phone...
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We're not in the greatest place.
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What happened?
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He wouldn't introduce me to his mother.
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down on her love life with James.
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Here you are, we've been looking for you everywhere.
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Oh, who the fuck can't say?
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...questioning my faith in faith.
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I mean, hadn't I had faith in us all along?
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Faith that all the withholding would stop.
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Just tell me I'm the one.
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Come on, you don't have to tell your mother or the whole world, just...
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just
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after he left I cried for a week
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and then I realized I do have faith faith in myself faith
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that I would one day meet someone who would be sure that I was the one
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 533 sentences and 3707 words to shadow. The speech runs for 27:44. The speaker talks at a steady 134 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| honey noun | /ˈhʌni/ | A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans. |
| gorgeous adjective | /ˈɡoɹd͡ʒəs/ | Sumptuously dressed. |
| column noun | /ˈkɒləm/ | A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration. |
| fabulous adjective | /ˈfæbjʊləs/ | Of or relating to fable, myth or legend. |
| commit verb | /kəˈmɪt/ | To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. |
| couch noun | /ˈkaʊ̯t͡ʃ/ | An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa. |
| ashamed adjective | /əˈʃeɪmd/ | Feeling shame or guilt. |
| behave verb | /bɪˈheɪv/ | To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way; to conform. |
| vow noun | /vaʊ/ | A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order. |
| meal noun | /ˈmiːl/ | Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity. |
| pants noun | /pænts/ | An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. |
| rush verb | /ɹʌʃ/ | To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully. |
| complicated adjective | /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/ | Difficult or convoluted. |
| hip noun | /hɪp/ | The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue. |
| superior adjective | /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/ | Higher in rank, status, or quality. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). |
| come over verb | To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse. |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. |
| fix up verb | To provide (someone) with something; to furnish. |
| look back verb | To think of (past events) in retrospect (in hindsight). |
| pick out verb | To remove by picking. |
| show off verb | To exhibit the best attributes of something. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been doing · you've been using · we've been looking |
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to be · used to get |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | anybody who tries · those who deserve · misgivings, which were |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was surrounded · be punished · wasn't tempted |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 112 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/, threesome /ˈθɹi.səm/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: ashamed /əˈʃeɪmd/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, brush /bɹʌʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, superior /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like honey, gorgeous, column.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.