romance (gone South)

Did you decide you'd had enough of being alone after this past Valentine's Day? Are you working the dating sites, "friends of friends" circuit, or just diving in to Happy Hour at your favorite bar? No matter which route you're taking, you'll probably get to the dreaded first date, and the related moral question: should you ever lie on a first date?

Ah, to be romantically involved with Simon Cowell! Worth more than $300 million, an international celebrity, reasonably handsome . And, by his own admission, frequently very generous to his exes when the relationship ends!