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Submitted to Contest #335
ANOTHER BLIND DATE Before the era of online dating, there was a dating section in the back of The Washingtonian Magazine where people could post ISO (in search of) ads. The entry would either have a post office box or use a telephone number posted by the magazine. The reason I was in a situation to be looking at those ads as a single mother of teen-agers in her late 40s, is another story and will one day come out in the form of a novel to protect the guilty.During this time, though, as I tried to fend off friends’ efforts to have me date by...
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