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I'm just going to go play with her.

And at the time, I'd been taking improv classes and learning the power of what improv can do to make me more charismatic and funny.

So I learned how to adopt a character.

So I walk over to this woman.

I'm wearing a black button-down shirt this night.

I unbutton my black button-down shirt down to my navel, and I adopt a Latin lover type of voice, almost like Javier Bardem.

Or like Mr. Rourke from Fantasy Island, if you're old enough to remember that show.

Anyway, I walked over to this woman with my shirt unbuttoned and I said, hello, I am Armando.

And she burst into a big smile and a laugh and said, hello, Armando.

Nice to meet you.

And this is called a role play approach, a technique I learned from one of my old coaches.

It's a way to be really playful when you approach a woman.

a role play.

And we hit it off.

Her name is Alex.

She became the love of my life for a certain amount of time.

I co-dedicated my book to her.

Her name is Alex.

I wrote a whole chapter about Alex.

Anyway, chapter 13 of my book, I would not have met the love of my life had I not said, let's go play.