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Vagina ceramics! Cemeteries! Drag kings! 10 unique date ideas you've never thought of

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Everyone has there go-to spot for the perfect first date. It could be a chic little French restaurant that serves the best fondue for two, or a coffee shop if you like your interactions easily escapable, or maybe it's just a scenic walk feeding swans by the lake and figuring out what emotional damage they’re hiding from you.

Most of us reuse that ideal first date, rinsing and repeating for every new suitor. But when you’re dating the same person over and over you can’t rehash that one spot. My partner and I have been together for over a decade, which means I don't need to suss out his red flags and he doesn't need to woo me into the bed I already share with him, but an active dating life is still key to a happy relationship.

And yet, over the ten years we’ve been together, we've done them all. The mundane cinema trips, the picnics in the park, and even the dire bowling nights. So now (like an old couple desperately getting weirder and weirder in the bedroom), if something is going

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