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Dear Breakup Girl,

I wrote before and got lovely helpful advice about healing my fairly broken heart. Thank you. Now I just kind of want your thoughts on a phenomenon. At work I sit next to an attractive guy named oh, say, Sam. I could go for him, but that's actually not the point. He just broke up with his girlfriend. He has FOUR DATES this week. Ignore what this says about his reboundness. What does this say about his networking abilities vs. mine? (I've had one date, from a party. No click -- we went out twice.) In fact, Sam says three of his dates are fixups from friends' parents. Is there such a shortage of "nice Jewish boys" and an overabundance of me's? Or is he better at networking?

Well, of course you can't answer the specifics, because you don't know either of us, or our families. But what do you think about getting the word out, BG? How does one get into this fixup network?

-- Nice Girl

Dear Nice Girl,

Yeah, he's just better at networking. Either that or some high-speed YentAlert went out, via bulk e-mail or phone tree, when Sam the JM became S.

As for you, start asking around. NOT VIA BULK E-MAIL OR PHONE TREE. Tell select friends (and parents of friends, I guess) that you are looking, and willing to blind-date. People who know you well. People who know lots of other cool people. People, actually, who might know Sam.

Love,
Breakup Girl

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