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Coming out tops in the paper chase

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IN THE film When Harry Met Sally, we find Meg Ryan has recently broken up with a longtime boyfriend.

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Over lunch, Carrie Fisher tries to cheer her up by promising to help find a new one.

Pulling a Rolodex out of her purse, Fisher rummages through a file marked ''single'' and hands her the business cards of potential dating material.

Although we all know there are no single men of potential dating material in the real world, I was nevertheless impressed with the Fisher character's ability to organise her business cards.

Before I discovered a Rolodex, I used to keep business cards under the legs of my furniture, filing the ''S's'' under the sofa.

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I relented when my friends pointed out a sunken living room didn't mean furniture raised half a metre above the floor.

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