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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Louis Hanson

My friend and I made a resolution to ask someone out in person every month. We failed

Laughing male couple in a group party setting
‘How comfortable were we to put ourselves out there and potentially face rejection, delivered to our faces?’ Louis Hanson asks. Photograph: Thomas Barwick/Getty Images

Last December, after consuming a few red wines, my friend Hana and I set ourselves the new year resolution to ask someone out in person each month.

With Hana visiting Melbourne from Canberra a couple of times a year, it was typical for our boozy biannual catch-ups to end in questions about our dating lives. This night was not much different.

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