Imagine you’re at a Christmas party and you’ve entered into a flirtation with another guest. Which string of statements, when you say you’ve got to go home, would you rather hear?
a) “What’s the sense in hurting my pride?”; “Your eyes are like starlight now”; “How can you do this thing to me?”; “Think of my lifelong sorrow if you got pneumonia and died”.
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