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The Rachel.

I mean, maybe you were on the right track with that whole, you know, spontaneous thing.

I mean, women really like that.

Really?

I mean, if it were me, I'd you know, I'd want you to what? I don't know I catch me off guard, you know, with like a really good kiss. You know, really sort of soft at first and then maybe brush the hair away from my

thing and then looking far into my eyes in a way that lets me know something

amazing is about to happen.

Mm-hmm. is about to happen. So the Rachel is a haircut in the early 1990s, using our archaic dating system, there was a popular television

show called Friends that became internationally popular. It wasn't just popular in America because it it represented an idealized

version of what would happen if six young white people lived together in

implausibly nice apartments in New York City and seemingly hardly ever went to work.

Spent most of their time lying around which is actually how I spent the 90s but I wasn't

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