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"I am one of those people who turn their nose up at most reality television shows. I&amp;#039;ve never watched Jersey Shore or the Bachelor/Bachelorette, I don&amp;#039;t keep up with the Kardashians and I couldn&amp;#039;t care less about Real Housewives of anywhere. I think the problem is that I just hate drama, and people who deliberately create drama, like to live in drama and thrive on drama. Most of the people in those shows seem to fit that description. That being said, I do love a good reality show that&amp;#039;s based on a premise other than someone&amp;#039;s life-drama. I like Ice Road Truckers and Pawn Stars on The History Channel and Mythbusters on The Discovery Channel. I don&amp;#039;t watch them every time they&amp;#039;re on, but if I&amp;#039;m flipping around and catch them, I have to watch. My latest reality-show-with-a-real-premise addiction is Bravo&amp;#039;s Millionaire Matchmaker. I love Patti Stanger&amp;#039;s no-nonsense approach and the way she calls her millionaires (and millionairesses) out on their superficiality or commitment phobias. She&amp;#039;s got a great, sarcastic style and I wish I was a millionairess because I&amp;#039;d use her in a heartbeat. I was watching her show over the weekend, and she arranged a date for a forty-something Millionairess with a fifty-something man who was one heck of a catch \u2013 handsome, articulate, physically fit, financially successful. He seemed like a genuine old-fashioned gentleman. Patti encouraged the woman to try this guy out because she&amp;#039;d been wasting her time playing cougar to younger men who kept leaving her. She longed for a man who could sweep her off her feet, and this guy was definitely the type. She ended up standing him up (she was a complete nutcase, believe me) and I was kind of glad. He deserved better than the likes of her. Still, something about him bothered me. He sent her a dress. He hadn&amp;#039;t met her yet, didn&amp;#039;t know a thing about her, but when he arranged the evening, he sent over a very expensive and beautiful dress to her hotel room with a note that he couldn&amp;#039;t wait to see her in it on their date. He&amp;#039;d picked out the restaurant (Spago) and Patti was sure he&amp;#039;d probably even order the woman&amp;#039;s food for her, since he was the &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll take care of everything&amp;quot; type. Maybe it&amp;#039;s just me, but\u2026.a dress? When you don&amp;#039;t even know me? The last time anyone picked out my clothing and ordered my food, I was six. I&amp;#039;d like to keep it that way. Maybe this stuff is just &amp;quot;old world gentlemanly manners&amp;quot; but to me it smacks of control freak in a big way. When I start dating, I&amp;#039;m not sure this kind of approach would do anything but creep me out. What do you think? Would you consider that thoughtful? Or a bit much and not in a good way? And how can we quickly make me a millionairess so I can get Patti working for me? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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