Your entire approach to dating can change overnight. For me, it happened on a night like any other. I came home from work typically bedraggled and sank into my broken, once-white sofa. As I put my feet up and summoned the strength to get through the rest of the evening (cooking? television? recreational reading?), my roommate approached wielding a book the same size as our kitchen counter. It rivaled a Random House hardcover Collector’s Edition dictionary in size and weight, and she manage....

