Northwest native Maria Dahvana Headley lived an interesting dating life when she was a drama student at New York University in the late 1990s. At one time she only dated intellectuals, which didn’t turn out so well. As she told Publishers Weekly, “I felt like I’d dated and then hated every man in Manhattan.”

At that point she did something that could have come straight out of an old Sex and the City episode. She decided that for one year she would agree to go out with anyone who asked her on a date. The only exceptions were drunks, druggies and cheating husbands.

Headley went out with some interesting people: a mime, a homeless man who thought he was Jimi Hendrix, a man who only spoke Polish, a Microsoft millionaire who still lived with his mom, and a divorced man — 25 years her senior — with two children. The divorced man stole her heart, and they eventually married.

Headley, who is an author, wrote a book chronicling her adventures a few years ago. The Year of Yes remains in print. If you’re single, 2013 is still young!