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    From a Guys View

    By Douglas Smith

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    A brief look into a mans viewpoint of relationships and dating.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDouglas Smith
    Release dateJun 25, 2012
    ISBN9781476182032
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    Douglas Smith

    Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator and the author of Rasputin and Former People, which was a bestseller in the U.K. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has written for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, National Geographic, and Netflix. Before becoming a historian, he worked for the U.S. State Department in the Soviet Union and as a Russian affairs analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He lives with his family in Seattle.

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      From a Guys View - Douglas Smith

      From A Guys View

      By Douglas Smith

      Copyright 2012 by Douglas Smith

      All rights reserved

      Published at Smashwords.com

      From A Guys View

      This one is for the ladies that constantly ask Why are men such assholes. Imagine for a moment if you will that you’re a guy. You are setting at a nice restaurant with your girl, it’s your anniversary and you wanted to take her someplace special to celebrate. Suddenly you see the discontented frown and you know what’s coming next. Mentally you brace yourself and she makes her first cutting comment for the night, possibly about some other woman’s dress, possibly about the fact that the food is taking too long. But of course it won’t end there, it never does. The night drags on, and every mistake you have ever made in your entire life seems to come up, again! All

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