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The Market Failure of First Dates
After the pleasantries are exchanged and the drinks are ordered, after the conversation moves from jobs to tastes in music to viral YouTube videos, after the awkward fumbling for the check, the walk to the curb, the stilted hug-turned-air-kiss-turned-forehead bump, after the goodbyes - every first date leaves one nagging question: Will you ever hear from them again?
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"Finally, we’ll leave you with one reassuring piece of advice from novelist Florence King that contradicts any assortative matching theories you may harbor: “Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.”
LOL! And I have always wondered what an "activity partner" is as well. Hmmm.