(?Perfection is an ideal, not a person. But if perfection ever were personified, it would be Jasmine.? ?Nick

Nick and Jasmine are in love?truly, madly, deeply. After two years of dating, Nick asks Jasmine to marry him?and she says no. Nick, heartbroken, leaves New York for Chicago for a new job and graduate school.

There, Nick is forced to start all over again. He knows no one in a city of seven million people. As he winds his way through various women, he becomes more and more disenchanted with his love life. A self-proclaimed romantic, Nick is just not up to the conventions of the dating game. From Chicago to Atlanta to Seattle to San Francisco, Nick searches for a romance that could equal the love he once felt for Jasmine. In the process, stumbling through and around his ?cardinal rules? to dating, Nick becomes disillusioned and bitter.

Yet, through his memories of happier times with Jasmine, Nick uses the past to determine his future decisions. Throughout his experiences, only one question remains: Without Jasmine, can he live happily ever after?

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