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There’s carbon in the air, but also love
Oh, how the dating scene has changed.
When I was last on the market more than 30 years ago, there were no online dating sites (the first one, Match.com, started the year I was married). So it was bars, matchmakers, matchmaking by friends, and dumb luck.
And I had dumb luck. Having broken up with a fiancée and a subsequent long-term girlfriend, I would, as a wag at my office said, go to the opening of an envelope for a chance to meet women, my job at the time being entertainment editor of a New York newspaper, which came with a lot of invitations. Which meant that one evening I was at the Grammys at Radio City Music Hall. And behind me was a very attractive woman. But I couldn’t dump my (platonic) companion, the sister of my sister’s boyfriend, so I said to myself, “Plenty of other fish in the sea.”
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