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She'd decided the test of whether a man was her soulmate was the answer to the question "What's your favorite Todd Rundgren song?" If they didn't get it right (and obviously none had as yet) she didn't immediately nix them. She was a practical, fun-loving girl who enjoyed an occasional ravishing by a pair of experienced hands.

Most often the answer from guys of her demographic was "(I don't wanna work, I just wanna) Bang On the Drum All Day", meaning he was of a certain age in the late 70s, early 80s. One young skater stud whom she asked just out of curiosity, answered the question so innocently, while holding in a huge bong hit, "Who's Todd Rundgren?", that she laid him down right there on his grungy couch and rode him.

As a rule she wasn't attracted to women, but on a rainy night in a lonely bar, minutes away from closing time, she posed the question to the woman on the stool next to her. They'd been downing drinks for the better part of the night and had begun waxing philosophical on the subject of true love. Surprisingly her answer was "Something To Fall Back On" from the '85 album A Cappella which was a close 2nd and had most certainly come out before the young woman was born. 

She nearly turned the tide that night. But as they waited in the downpour for a cab she heard strains of "Think of me, Think of me" drifting in through the Absinthe fog. She begged off with a feeling-sick excuse which she promptly made truth by puking in the gutter just as a cab pulled up.