Once upon a time a boy got a job to write a column for a Chicago magazine. The boy writes about relationships. The boy tries to avoid any Carrie Bradshaw references because people are over his Carrie Bradshaw references. He know this now. That boy is me.

An URban Legend : The Cynic and the Touchstone

As I got the call to meet Jeff and his girlfriend at a corner bar one night I knew it was coming. Jeff, my best friend of years, the guy that I had dubbed my "Straight Wing Man" was going to tell me the unthinkable. The guy that I could depend on for blunt relationship advice ("Hey, they suck. You don't.") was going to blow my mind. When Jeff walked up to me on that cold wet rainy night, hugged me with a smile and told me he proposed to his girlfriend, I was already drunk and needed to get drunker...

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