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Prospective Jennifer Love Hewitt suitors, take note: The recently single actress-turned-author thinks Staples is sexy.

“I love office supplies,” Hewitt told People at Tuesday’s grand opening of Esprit’s flagship store in New York. “I love being organized. It’s the folders and the tech … [Staples] is a place to take me if you want me to get hot and bothered.”

Not that Hewitt, who recently split with Ghost Whisperer costar Jamie Kennedy, isn’t enjoying her current post-break-up life. “It’s really nice,” she said. “You definitely get more time with your girlfriends. You get more time to do things around your house. And just to relax and get your nails done and watch TV and have a good glass of wine. It’s great.”

But when romance does come back around, Hewitt, 31, has a formula for predicting whether it will last. “You can pretty much figure out on the first 10 dates who the guy is going to be seven months later,” she explained. “And we as girls tend to romanticize men right away, and say, ‘No, no, no, he didn’t mean that.’ Or, ‘That thing that he did, it kind of bothered me, but it will change.’ ”

[But] it doesn’t change,” Hewitt continued, laughing. “You have to find somebody just who works and gels with you and that’s all you can do.”

Hewitt has plenty of other dating advice, which serves up in her new book, The Day I Shot Cupid, out this week. Ex-boyfriend Kennedy also wrote a chapter – which Hewitt said she “loved,” despite the fact that they’re no longer an item.

“I thought it was great,” she said. “And I’m really appreciative that he was a part of the book.”

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What inspired newly single Jennifer Love Hewitt to chop off her hair?

“I needed to feel lighter!” she told UsMagazine.com Tuesday at an Esprit flagship store opening in NYC. “We just finished season five of [Ghost Whisperer], and I was just ready for a change.”

Complementing her new ‘do: A sleek physique.

The 5-foot-3 Hewitt, 31, who recently shed an estimated 15-plus pounds, told Us, “I try to work out three or four times a week and eat healthy and that’s about it.”

Despite the workout routine, she told Us she can’t “get rid of” her curves, but “I’m trying!”

On Tuesday, she released her new romance book The Day I Shot Cupid, which makes her “super excited,” she told Us. “It’s a book about love, dating, relationships and men and women and where we are.”

She said writing the book even helped her deal with her recent split from Kennedy, 39.

“I learned a lot from the book,” she said, adding that she and Kennedy are “good. We’re fine and still friends.”

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Jennifer Love Hewitt attends the Esprit flagship store opening at Esprit on March 23, 2010 in New York City, NY on March 23, 2010.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt says it isn’t tough going to work, even though she recently split from her Ghost Whisperer costar Jamie Kennedy.

“It’s fine,” she tells USA Today. “Everyone’s a grown-up. It just is what it is.”

On Tuesday, the actress, 31, releases her new book — The Day I Shot Cupid: Hello, My Name Is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I’m a Love-aholic.

Weird timing?

“It’s not the ideal situation, but the thing I’m really happy about is that I never say in the book that I know how to find perfect love or how to be in the perfect relationship,” she says. “I’m thrust back into the dating world as the book is coming out, so I feel more than ever that people will know I’m kind of with them in the trenches.”

She says it isn’t tough being single again.

“It’s what life handed me, and I’m OK with it,” she says. “I know wholeheartedly that I’m a really good partner. I think I’m a really good girlfriend, and I think that I could be a really good wife. I know that I love being able to give my love out to someone. I know there is somebody great out there for me.”

Though she’s been dubbed a “serial dater,” she says she isn’t “that different from a large group of people out there who are better and happier when they can spend time with someone.”

Despite unsuccessful relationships with everyone from John Mayer to Scottish actor (and former fiance) Ross McCall, she says: “I’m a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine’s Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that comes out.”

Her tip for getting over a guy?

“You can allow yourself 72 hours of wallowing time,” she says. “Then you’ve got to get into the gym, stop eating the ice cream and move on.”

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Following her recent break up from Jamie Kennedy, “Ghost Whisperer” actress Jennifer Love Hewitt obviously went the route that many women do, post heartbreak, she chopped off all of her hair! A very sour appearing Jennifer showed off her new shorter do as she visited a friend in Brentwood, CA on March 20, 2010.

What do you think of her new hair cut? Love it or hate it?

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Single ladies, take heart: Even Jennifer Love Hewitt is daunted by the idea of diving back into the dating pool after a breakup.

“I don’t like to go out to clubs and party. I’m not into ‘Let’s go out with one guy on a Monday and another guy on a Wednesday’ – that’s just not me,” Hewitt, 31, tells People. “I’m a relationship kind of girl. I like a twosome. Some people get excited about being single. I don’t.”

Hewitt and her Ghost Whisperer costar Jamie Kennedy, 39, quietly split recently after a year together.

It was “a mutual decision, and we’ve parted as friends,” says Hewitt. “There’s no anger, there’s no upset, there’s no enemies.” Hewitt adds that the pair’s pre-existing friendship has made it easy to transition to working together as exes: “It’s been totally fine. It’s really a testament to who he is and to who I am. We’re both grown-ups.”

New Book
Ironically, the split comes just as The Day I Shot Cupid, Hewitt’s new book offering advice and wisdom on dating and relationship hits bookstores. Subtitled Hello, My Name is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I’m a Love-aholic, the book, out March 23, includes Hewitt’s own dating horror stories, admissions about her fantasy engagement rings (she’s been visiting the same store since age 12 to try them on) and advice on everything from getting over breakups to dieting and cellulite.

It also includes a chapter written by her then-boyfriend Kennedy in which he rhapsodizes about women’s curves – derrieres in particular, saying he prefers “junko in the trunko” and calling big butts “sexy, strong and yummy.”

Hewitt says she has “no idea” when she’ll be ready to date again, though she plans to re-read her own book for advice (and is already at work penning a follow-up).

Independent Working Woman
“Back in the shark tank!” she jokes. “I never said in the book that I knew how to be in the perfect relationship. I say in my book I want to be the readers’ kind spirit out in the dating world. And now, more than ever, I am.”

So for now is Hewitt content to be an independent working woman, or does the self-described “hopeless romantic” still yearn to find true love?

“Both,” she says. “I want to be an independent woman who falls in love, finds a great partner for her lifetime, has kids and kind of does it all. I’d like to have it all.”

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