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I'm deleting the apps again

I'm deleting the apps again

Musings on the fact that none of us appear to have found The One

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Alexa Shoen
Jun 28, 2023
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Hi, team.

“It’s moments such as these in which I would give anything to live in the 1800s and have some overbearing uncle arrange my marriage for strategic political reasons.”

That’s what I said to myself last night when I opened up a dating app for the first time in weeks, saw my inbox, and immediately closed it again.

Didn’t really matter what the messag…

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