20th April. True Romance?

It's a fine line that divides the romantic man from the stalker, the attentive suitor from the all consuming obsessional.

There's about as much chance of a romantic man knocking on a woman's door who isn't some kind of nut, as a posse of adoring attractive younger women draping themselves over me without a transaction involving a large amount of money.

"Where are all these more romantic men anyway?" I asked Isabelle during a recent discussion about this often problematic aspect of relationship. (Synonyms: extravagant, exaggerated, wild, imaginative, fantastic, improbable, unreal).

No it's not easy to point to a living person, only on-screen characters. I'd like to single-out 'Grey's Anatomy' as the current vehicle for these wildly imaginative fantastically improbable unreal extravagant - or if you like, romantic depictions - of men.

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