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Dear Janet,

I don’t really have people on the weekends to go out with ... a lot of the people I hang out with during the week are busy on weekend nights. So weekends kind of suck. I want to pick up some girls but I don’t really feel like drinking and I don’t know where else to go. I’m really not good at picking up women. I’m really bad at that pivotal step, you know, the one where you make a move.

—A Lame Opening’s Never Enough

Dear ALONE,

See, here’s where I think you’re making your biggest mistake: I don’t know that many people go out to bars for the express purpose of being picked up. Oh, it might happen as a random byproduct, but people don’t tend to venture singly to bars. They go in groups, which makes finding...

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