You see, in the study, which was conducted by a professor at the University of South Brittany in France and published in the journal "Psychology of Music, " a 20-year-old "good looking" man was challenged to ask 300 women for their phone number.

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She had a nice house in Old Metairie, a nice car, a great job, a good man who loved her and a wedding date in October.

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Good thing he had the brains--and the perseverance--of his old man.

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And so it is that if you are a good little Dutch girl or boy, you can expect two Christmas visits from a kindly, old man.

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There he stands, at a little distance, jingling coins in his pocket, waiting for someone to need him: a satisfied man, with the sort of good humor and obliging manner I associate with an old-fashioned servant.

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Things actually seemed to be going pretty good for me, a man named DeWitt sent to Columbia to retrieve a girl to settle some old debts.

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Pablo and Anselmo knew how good they were and while Pablo stood now proud and less sad-looking, watching them lovingly, the old man acted as though they were some great surprise that he had produced, suddenly, himself.

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Ten years later, just as Anna is about to marry a good-natured man (Danny Huston) who has patiently wooed her for years, a ten-year-old boy shows up and announces that he is Sean reborn.

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