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What’s More Natural Than Nature? – Confessions of a Serial Online Dater, part 3

Posted on May 20th, 2008 | 62 comments

Want to go on a hike?
The question seemed innocuous enough, or so I thought when I emailed it to Nature Girl, a woman I met on Yahoo personals. We had passed the initial stages of online romance with flying colors:
• We liked each other’s photos – and we trusted they were recent and accurate (i.e. not [...]

Confessions of a Serial Online Dater, part 1 (Craigslist coffee date gone bad)

Posted on March 31st, 2008 | 11 comments

When CityGirl answered my craigslist ad, I should have known by the way she replied that we’d already met. My post said I was looking for an attractive, educated woman to meet for cocktails in Palo Alto. In her email reply she said she lived in San Francisco but frequently consulted on the peninsula, and [...]