I am starting this book because I keep making the same mistakes and then forgetting I made them.

What I want is not complicated. A woman who laughs at the right things. Who is easy to be around on a Tuesday. Who is still here in two years. I am thirty-four and I have been close twice, and both times it ended with me saying "I don't understand what happened."

So from now on, every woman gets a page. What I liked. Where it went. What I think I learned. If the lesson turns out to be wrong, I will cross it out rather than erase it. I want to see the wrong ones later.

Rule for this book: honest, even when it makes me look bad. Especially then.