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We met on the first day of grad school last fall and had an instant connection. At the time, she was still seeing someone from back home, but she wasn't too happy about the long distance thing. We ended up as co-chairs of a big event and spent a lot of time together because of that. She broke up with her boyfriend a couple months into the semester, but I did not make any moves as I did not want to take advantage. She had been approached by an older PhD students, and she seemed interested (her type), so I stepped aside hoping that whatever they had between them would just fizzle out naturally. And so it did. All the meanwhile, we kept hanging out and spending a lot of time together one on one. We've shared a lot about each other and have grown pretty close; in fact, she's by far my best friend at school. We've been on a number of date-like outings. When I sent her a bouquet of flowers and a sweet note for Valentine's day, however, she thanked me, but said that she just wants to be friends. Since then, I've tried to get over her, but we share so much in common and we always have the best time together. This past Friday , I invited her to the symphony and she accepted. Before the symphony, we swung by a special benefit party at a museum, and after the symphony, I asked her if she wanted to get a late night dinner and she said yes. It was like the perfect date, accept it was supposedly just as friends? I really like her, and she really seems to like spending time with me. What should I do to win her over? Should I try holding hands and being more touch-feely with her on our next outing? Or should I just accept that there will never be anything romantic between us? Thanks!

Two years ago, the was a cute girl in my class that I got to talking to, hung out with once at her place watching a movie and making out, and studied with for class a fair amount. She made it pretty clear she wanted to have sex with me, but i never made that happen and instead we just kind of stopped talking.

Now, we're back in two classes together and now that I see her a couple times a week I'm feeling like I made a mistake not pursuing things with her. We share a lot of interests and stuff, and I think there could be something there if we gave it another chance. I've taked to her breifly in class or whatevera couple times, and she seems like she maky still have sime interest. Is it worth trying to start something back up with her? And if so, given our histroy, should I waste a lot of time trying to small talk with her, or just ask straight up if she'd want to go out some time?