Joan Allen & Dan Collins: Why should we listen to these two?

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It?s Friday night, which means another date with Pat … your cat. Or perhaps it?s a romantic evening with the Cylones, the barcalounger and a plate of macaroni and cheese. So what are you going to do about it? Who will help you pick the lock off your chains of loneliness? It?s the Dynamic Duo of Dating, Joan and Dan. But as one reader asks, “Why should I listen to these two? Look at them ? would you take advice from them? What real experience do they have?

DAN: Well, Joan has had more dates than you?ll find in a crate of Mueslix, so I know that helps. Then she heard Helen Reddy?s “I Am Woman” one too many times and decided to write a book about how great it is to live in a psychological cocoon of denial where enjoying sunsets by yourself is like opening the 1-cent suitcase on “Deal or No Deal.” Am I within hailing distance of the truth, Blanche (she always depends on the kindness of strangers)?

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