What I Learned About Love From American Movies
Is it normal to use someone's shower on the first date? According to Top Gun, yes.

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Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations and the novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. Her writing and drawings have appeared in the New York Times, Electric Literature, Tin House, Literary Hub, Guernica, Vogue, the Telegraph, and BuzzFeed, and Shondaland. She currently teaches at the New School, and she is a founding faculty member of the MFA Program at Randolph College. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their son.