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Cooking dinner for the girl next door

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She agreed for dinner in your house after the ten options you suggested. Saturday evening it is. She will be spending a great deal of the day shopping and doing her hair, she said. She gave you a carte blanche on what to cook but warned you in good humor, "it had better be good, I'm not a fan of badly cooked meals." That made you nervous.

But you forgot to ask if she is vegetarian or she likes her meaty servings. But that is not the immediate problem. You are wondering, did she have to make her hair today? Is that a sign? I mean, it is mid-month, who makes her hair and does shopping mid-month?

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