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'Don't Give Up' is The Second-Worst Piece of Dating Advice Ever

By Edwin Decker

San Diego CityBeat | July 9, 2008

There's another name for guys who don't give up on their romantic interests. They're called "stalkers" and stalking is wrong, unless, of course, you're John Cusack with a boombox, in which case it's romantic.

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Tags: dating, advice, John Cusack, relationships, stalkers

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It was February 1999. I had just written a Sordid rant condemning a cluster of City Council-proposed anti-stripper laws that prompted a dozen or so local dancers to e-mail me in gratitude. It was an exciting chapter in my life.

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Yes, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, was a day when you truly felt proud to be an American. But then, on Nov. 5, I read something that changed all that. I read that California's black voters favored Proposition 8 by a margin of 70 percent to 30 percent, which means seven out of 10 black voters voted against gay marriage.

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