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Aziz ansari is a writer, standup comedian, and actor. He has starred as tom haverford on the emmynominated comedy parks and recreation with amy poehler and others. For years, aziz ansari has been aiming his comic insight at modern romance, but for this book he decided he needed to take things to another level. Aziz ansari talks about the total shift in the culture of finding love in his new book, modern romance which comes out on june 16th. The book modern romance by aziz ansari dares to make finding love in the age of tinder and less confusing than a breakup text.
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