By ERIKA W. SMITH

As the temperature rises, many of us start wishing that our love lives would heat up, too. Enter: the summer fling. They’re not limited to movies such as Grease and the Notebook or our romantic fantasies — they happen in real life, too. Summer flings can be fun, they can be sexy, they can be romantic, and they can be meaningful. Sometimes they can even be all of the above.

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