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	<title>Salon.com > Lauren McLaughlin</title>
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		<title>The perfect man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Design-your-own boyfriends lack that certain something. Until they don't. A short story.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Martin was a mouth breather. Jim lacked ambition. Rennie's head was too big. Craig licked my face like a dog. </p><p>But Pritchard. Pritchard is everything I want. And I'm not going to apologize about the way I met him. Especially not to my friends still slugging it out on LovePlanet.com. I did LovePlanet. Seventy-four dates with sixty-two men. You know what I learned? People lie. Sylvester was fifty-five, not thirty-five. Jacob was an unemployed bartender with halitosis, not a financial planner with a beach house. I admit I lied about my weight. All women lie about their weight. </p><p>But I can laugh at all of this now because I am off the roster. I am no longer "out there," as they say. And I didn't have to lower my standards or search outside my geographic region either. What I had to do was stop searching and start designing. That's right. I designed my boyfriend. I'm a busy woman. I don't have time for the Toms, Dicks, and Harrys the world keeps throwing at me. </p><p>Enter AI4U, top-of-the-line virtual-companion designers. No, they're not cheap, but get real, they're custom-designing your boyfriend. If it's cheap I'm not interested. Granted, he's a Web-based AI, not a flesh-and-blood man. So what? This isn't about sex and anyway, the physical part of a relationship always fades eventually. </p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2006/05/30/perfect_man/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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