Verizon: A Blackberry Can Salvage any Star-Crossed Love

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Who says a full-frontal hipster cowlick can’t be romantic? Verizon’s “It’s the network” guy would beg to differ.

The far-flung French love affair is classic ad fodder for the desperate, downtrodden or simply unimaginative. So every time we see this ad for Verizon by jumP and Hungry Man, we wince. And maybe that’s why it works. We’re at the age when the classic romance has lost its day in favor of cynicism, spoof and televised mobile phone wars.

But Network Guy assures us it doesn’t have to be good-bye – not if you still believe in fairy tales – and not as long as you have the latest Blackberry (which – ah, merci – we do).

This is one of those Kleenex moments.

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