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“No one should know how much hip-hop gossip I know.”
His response: “It was forward, but it was good.”
In the end, there was no language barrier.
They agreed on only one thing: “This isn’t a type of person I’ve dated before.”
“Whoever matched us up did a very good job.”
She wanted a man who likes classic rock. We gave her a Timberlake fan.
“It would have been more interesting if someone had an outburst.”
They shared a love of politics and of running, and an Uber. But not much else.
The conversation was the easy part of the evening. The problem was everything else.
She was hoping to be matched with someone as “ridiculous” as she.
She didn’t bargain on her being neither.
He said they liked the book for different reasons.
She liked that they could speak the same language. He did not.
She loved that he knew about Tiny Desk concerts.
They agreed to disagree on Star Wars couples.
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