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Wanted: An Impressive Girl. Simple enough.

-Someone who is creative, but not because she feels she has to be. Someone who creates out of the simple desire to create, not out of some misguided sense of obligation to me

-Someone with enough self-respect to realize that a bar is not the greatest place in the world, and that the people one meets there are usually not much better than scum. Or, perhaps more accurately, the scum on scum's shoes.

-Someone willing to read books with new ideas, things that challenge her worldview, rather than limiting herself to reading things that merely bolster her preconceived notions. And when confronted with something that appears to challenge her worldview, she can look at it objectively without the critical eye of the status quo.

-Someone who thinks enough of me to realize that our relationship is really between us, not between us and the entire world.

-Someone who I can have a good conversation with, staying up all night and even into the morning without one of us dominating the discourse or boring the hell out of the other person.

-Someone who doesn't just succumb to the beat of a song, but analyzes the lyrics and weighs the song on what is said, not just on how it sounds.

-Someone willing to accept that they don't know things, and willing to learn and add to their knowledge.

-Someone I can sit on a porch with and drink lemonade.

-Someone who is beautiful outside because she is beautiful inside.

-Someone who understands that Right and Wrong are just words, and that matters is what you do, not what you say.

-Someone who is a socialite, and welcoming to all, but still thinks highly enough of herself that whatever company she keeps does not alter her state of being.

-Someone with a sense of humor, who does not succumb to the temptation of condescension.

-Someone who is willing to do more than just talk about being classy.

-Someone who does not need to feel the need to embrace feminism or misogyny, but simply is. She is strong in and of herself, and does not need to be told that she needs to work in order to free herself from the oppression of her foremothers (or whatever), or who does not feel the need to stay home chained to the stove. Who does what she does out of a desire to do it, not a need to have a place fulfilled.

-Someone who likes who I am without openly fawning over me.

-Someone who is perfect in her imperfection. Or who is perfect because she is imperfect. Someone whose little imperfections do not grow to consume my image of her in time.

-Someone who does not just vote the party line, but votes her conscience.

-Someone who cares enough to do her makeup, but not so much that she overdoes her makeup.

-Someone who is not afraid of looking stupid because she cannot answer a question.

-Someone who understands that taste is subjective, as are many things in life.

-Someone who would watch a football game on the couch without fully understanding the game, and would ask for explanations and not mind my commentary on the game.

-Someone who has been evading me all these long years, but is out there somewhere.