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"Whole Foods at 7 PM is your savanna," he said. "Avoid the frozen section—too desperate. The produce aisle? That's the watering hole. Everyone circles back."

Simone gave us our final assignment: "Approach a man. Use everything you've learned. And for heaven's sake, don't pretend to like NFTs."

Our homework: approach a man under thirty-five in the wild. Not to date. Just to converse. my cougar courses

"That one," I said, pointing to the lacinato, "has more iron. But the curly one is better for massaging into a salad."

I kissed him under a streetlamp.

He blinked. "People massage kale?"

The email was from something called Vantage Wild , a "transformative life academy." The course catalogue was unlike any I’d seen. "Whole Foods at 7 PM is your savanna," he said

And sometimes, the warmth is just a woman who finally stopped apologizing for taking up space.