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Love Like a Man

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Reads 274,748
Votes 11,899
Parts 45
Time 3h 48m

Mature

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**This story was a top 55 SYTYCW15 Finalist!**

Claire Warren felt like she had her life under control; she kicked ass at her job as an investment banker, had her own condo overlooking the City and spent her personal time knocking back G&T's at some of Toronto's hottest bars.  

Everything was perfect.... 

Well it was  perfect until her douche bag of an ex boyfriend, Parker, up and got married to the first woman he dated after he dumped Claire because he "wasn't ready for marriage".  

Yeah, ouch.  

Hearing of Parker's wedding, Claire decided that she had enough of trying to find "Mr. Right" - it never seemed to work out anyways.  Instead, she'd start to love like a man and look for "Mr. Right Now".


Construction worker, Gabe Darrow, had enough of dating; he was ready to find the one.  The problem was all the women he seemed to attract were the same; women who barely got themselves through high school without getting knocked up and who rarely thought of anything beyond when the next episode of "Desperate Housewives of Who Even Cares" was on.   

Gabe was about to give up dating altogether until he met Claire; a woman who was the exact opposite of the women he was used to... Too bad for him, that Claire was through with dating. 

**MATURE LANGUAGE AND SEXY TIMES** (you've been warned)All Rights Reserved

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