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Dating for dummies

BACK in my halcyon student days, a friend claimed to have found a revolutionary dating book to change our lives.

The Rules, written by US authors Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, advocated that a woman should play hard to get, never split the bill and that sex on the first date is verboten, akin to romantic suicide.

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