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an unreliable guide to dating trends

PRINCING Inspired by the Prince song “Let’s Pretend We’re Married”, ‘princing’ is when you feign being off the market in order to seem more alluring. It stems from the unimpeachable principle that if you were worth dating in the first place, you wouldn’t be single now, would you? Checkmate! You can pretend to be literally married, merely shacked up, or

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