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The Dating Advisor, Issue #4 -- Are You Ready for the Memorial Day Holiday?
May 27, 2004
Welcome to all!

The first great holiday weekend of the summer is here!

Do you have plans to go somewhere? Are you going to share the weekend with someone special? I hope so.

This is a great chance to do something different with a date. Plan a picnic out of town.

Or go to a nice park and do some trail hiking. Plan a little longer route and go cycling.

Find a quiet lake or stream and go fishing. Camp overnight and enjoy the mild weather.

Looking for an urban experience? Plan a day at a theme park.

Make it special. This could be the start of a good summer romance!

Enjoy the following features of The Dating Advisor and keep your spirits high!

In This Issue

1) Favorite Dating Service Reviews
2) Find a Unique Gift at The Lighter Side
3) Article--Online Dating is Better Than Dating in the Real World
4) Love Poem--Lullaby
5) Romantic Movie--Much Ado About Nothing


1) Favorite Dating Service Reviews

eHarmony.com
The eHarmony motto is “fall in love for all the right reasons.” And it appears that no other dating service does a better job of matching up marriage minded adults than eHarmony. Since they started in August of 2000, they have successfully guided couples to more than 2500 marriages, about two per day! Their membership is now over 3 million worldwide. Time magazine called eHarmony “the fastest growing site,” and it now draws over 10,000 new users per day. eHarmony focuses intensely on helping people to find a great soulmate, a lasting relationship that leads to marriage. Check out the site! It has the tools and the support to help you find your soulmate.
Review continues Click Here.

Yahoo Personals.com
The Yahoo! website is one of the most frequently used websites on the entire internet, so not surprisingly, the Yahoo Personals dating service is one of the most frequently used dating sites. The membership is huge! You’ll notice that when you do a search for profiles of eligible singles in your immediate geographical area that you will receive more results than with any other dating service. No wonder their website title is, "Discover great singles near you." And if you don’t live in the U.S., don’t worry. Yahoo! has their site interfaced for about 9 different countries and 6 different languages. Take a free Tour of their site, a wonderful flash presentation, and then start searching for a friend, a date, a relationship, and more.
Review continues Click Here.

2) Find a unique, fun gift at TheLighterSide.com

Tons of unique, amusing, cute, fun, inexpensive gifts in over 20 categories. Holiday items, pet gifts, puzzles, novelties, you name it. You're sure to find just the right gift for your date for any occasion. Click here.

3) Why Online Dating is Better than Dating in the Real World by Marc de Jong

Let me tell you a story. For years I went to bars, festivals and other meetings, and it wasn't always for the beer or the music. To be honest, many times I was mainly looking for a girl friend, for a woman to spend the rest of my life with.

I had my share of dates, don't worry: Frankenstein was not my father, some ladies even consider me handsome. But in the end I was still living on my own, and slept in a bed that was always too big.

Life changed when I bought a modem and went on the Internet. Initially my connection wasn't meant for a ride on the electronic highway to love - remember: I am a music fan - but it lasted only a few days before I first visited a dating site.

Within seconds, thousands of women entered my cramped living room, and after a little surfin' around I wrote a girl that called herself Pearlemma. I hope it was not her real name.

Only 24 hours later Pearlemma wrote me back. We exchanged up to six letters. Then it became clear she was only interested in having a chat once in a while. I knew the type - from bars, festivals and other meetings.
Article continues Click Here.

4) Lullaby by W.H. Auden

Love poems have the power to inspire us and to warm our hearts. We should take a few minutes each day to recall an inspirational line or stanza.

Lay Your Sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm:
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

5) Much Ado About Nothing Movie Review

Is this really the way people used to connect back in Elizabethan days? It's too funny, and too charming! You've got to see this Shakespearean film again!

Here's a review by Amazon.com editor Jim Emerson.

Much Ado About Nothing is probably the most satisfying, and certainly the liveliest and most charming, of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films. The witty badinage between Branagh and his then-wife Emma Thompson, as Benedick and Beatrice, is as bright and sunny as the golden sunlight that shines on the Tuscan villa where the picture was shot. This production--and don't ask about the plot, just remember the title--is an ebullient celebration of art and artifice, culminating in a joyous dance, and performed at a brisk pace by an all-star cast, including Denzel Washington, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, and Michael Keaton. --Jim Emerson

That's all for now.

Make it a great week.

Mark
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