1) What 1 characteristic do you find most attractive in someone?

A powerful sense of self -- sometimes described as confidence, integrety, power, mission...all of those rolled up into one

2) What 1 characteristic do you find least attractive in someone?

Inability to sympathise/relate to others -- call it profound self-centeredness.

3) Are those 2 things critical to your chosing someone as a friend or lover?

ABSOLUTELY.

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney