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SUSA HR: Numbness

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"Am I setting myself up for a loveless life?" That's from a 22-year-old who's never been in a real relationship and worries that tuning romance out now means it never shows up. Then a big sister found some very grown searches on her 9-year-old sister's iPad and doesn't know whether to tell their parents.

The last letter got me going. She invites friends to dinner, and at a rooftop bar one of them decides she'd rather eat there instead, about $1,200 to $1,400 on her tab when she'd budgeted $400. I've been the host in that story more than once, including the guy who took me to Bossa Nova like he was putting me on (I'd put it next to a Cheesecake Factory). Would you have paid for the rooftop? Tell me in the comments.

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