Is your paramour into the the textbook red roses and box of chocolates, or would they prefer a romantic home-cooked meal?

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She and her paramour both deny that he was its source.

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Steal a kiss over mega martinis atop the Stratosphere Tower, clasp hands as you watch the Bellagio's dancing fountains or hide out with your paramour in a deluxe suite all weekend.

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" She notes that she is petite and her nickname is "The Mouse, " thanks to a former paramour who exclaimed one day when she was angry: "The mouse roars.

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Your palate and your paramour will adore Sen5es Bakery where you can fawn over a gourmet breakfast buffet or delight in plates like the harvest parfait, ratatouille bisque or eggs Benedict.

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Rather than exchanging numbers and setting up a date to determine if we like a person, we can use Facebook (or Google or MySpace or LinkedIn, etc.) to peruse the life of a potential paramour.

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An awkward dinner in June 1945, at which Duff's evident interest in Daisy de Cabrol has fiercely wounded his current paramour, Loulou de Palffy, prompts a diary entry some days later that illustrates his wife's devoted complaisance.

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Tender, creamy and finished with a tasteful flurry of poppy seeds, the dish in front of me was more like a charming and coddled European paramour arrived to vie with the square-jawed, calloused-handed Yankee hash for my affections.

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The recent romantic comedy "He's Just Not That Into You" had a character, Mary (Drew Barrymore), who boasts to a trio of colleagues that a potential paramour "Myspaced me, " meaning that he contacted her via the social network Myspace.

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