Michael Beaumier has taken love advice from the homeless. After exchanging flirting looks w... SWM in NYC seeks Chicago readers

After exchanging flirting looks with a stranger seated across from him on the Red Line, Beaumier, a middle-aged gay man, debated whether he should follow the tall, tawny-haired guy from the train. Having worked at the Chicago Reader's personals ad department for nearly eight years, Beaumier was determined not to become one of the forlorn people who repeatedly turned up at his counter to place a "Missed Connections" ad, the kind in which people are convinced they've met their soul mates in chance encounters -- often on the Red Line -- but let them slip away.

As the stranger stood to get off, Beaumier cautiously rose to his feet too, and that's when the homeless man, curled up next to Beaumier, winked at him and said, "Good luck, kid." It was the push Beaumier needed.

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