Date Lab: The second time was the charm.
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Date Lab: The second time was the charm.
Date Lab | She can tell if someone will be important in her life after only a few words.
Date Lab | One said they had a lot in common. The other thought otherwise.
Date Lab | She’d mostly given up on dating — until now.
Date Lab | They enjoyed talking about the vagaries of dating over 40.
Date Lab | Maybe kismet works only in romance novels.
Date Lab | She thought his tattoos showed that he’s “creative.”
Date Lab | She worried that he’d be “some stuffy, works-at-the-Capitol lobbyist.” He wasn’t.
Date Lab | “Don’t get me wrong, there was chemistry. ...There’s definitely chemistry.”
Date Lab | A professional matchmaker-turned-novelist paired them up.
Date Lab | He was enjoying her company too much to notice.
But they spent much of the evening discussing his feelings about his ex-wife.
Date Lab| They couldn’t avoid the elephant in the room when the dinner was on the day of the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings.
Date Lab | An experiment in “positive assortative matching.”
Date Lab | Or did he take her too seriously when she dropped the phrase “noncommittal monogamy”?
Date Lab | He asked her about her high school angst. She said she didn’t have any.
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