14 Dating Tips For Your Cripplingly Awkward Best Friend

11. When You Can't Remember Their Name

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Chances are, this has happened before. Their name can escape you for a second (which feels like an eternity) or sometimes you go to call them Juan (your holiday romance) when their name is something relatively simple like Fred. All terribly excrutiating. Do not panic however; simply introduce a nickname. Whether it be Sweetheart or Wolverine - whatever rolls off the tongue easiest - they have a cute new nickname and hopefully you've smartly created a nice bonding moment until you can figure out who the hell you're actually going out with just now.
 
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