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Hiram Monserrate looking for love after cutting gal pal free

He’s back — on the prowl.

Former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate — who was charged with slashing girlfriend Karla Giraldo in the face with a broken drinking glass in 2008 — has dumped her to dive back into the dating pool.

The pudgy, disgraced Queens Dem made it known he was no longer with Giraldo — who stood by him after his conviction for assaulting her — during a May 6 private party on Central Park South, where he tried out some lame, old pickup lines on some fresh, young faces.

“I’m single now,” he cooed to two female partygoers almost half his age.

And the movie buff is hot to trot.

He said he wanted to take a sweetie to see “Iron Man 2” before it’s out of theaters.

Despite being booted from the Senate in February and rebuffed by voters in a comeback bid in March, Monserrate still hands out his state Senate business cards to prospective dates — but with the old phone numbers crossed out and his current digits penciled in.

Last week, he kept it flirty with one of the 20-somethings he met at the party, a Post reporter who later requested a formal interview with him.

“I’d like to date,” said the divorced dad of one. “I’m looking for a good Christian woman who’s good company. I want to settle down and have kids.”

When the reporter said she was non-Christian, he hinted that accommodations could be made.

He also seemed to delight at poking fun at her weight.

“You’re too thin,” he teased.

But that didn’t stop him from asking for a date.

“You said I was too thin,” the woman replied.

“I can fatten you up,” he shot back.

Monserrate’s abrupt split from Giraldo comes after a circus-like trial last year during which they each testified that their bloody dustup at his Queens apartment building was all an accident.

Video surveillance footage showed Monserrate dragging a bleeding Giraldo by the hair from the Jackson Heights building.

Still, the couple professed their love for each other and announced plans to wed — despite an order of protection banning Monserrate from getting near Giraldo.

Monserrate insisted that while he is back on the market, he’s not over his 30-year-old ex, though the protection order makes meetings tricky.

“We both love each other, and love should conquer all, but the system broke us,” he whined. “It’s unfair.”

A few weeks ago, the two had a chance meeting — not their first — in Jackson Heights, where they both still live, albeit separately, he said.

Monserrate said Giraldo spotted him on the street, gave him a big hug and gushed, “I love you, I miss you, I want to be with you.”

“I smiled but didn’t say anything. It was sad,” he recounted.

Since Giraldo initiated the contact, Monserrate isn’t in violation of the protection order, said his lawyer, Joe Tacopina.

“I don’t know if she’s seeing anyone, but I wouldn’t fault her,” Monserrate said. “She’s young, and she’s beautiful.”

Giraldo did not answer her door at her Queens address yesterday.