A lot has changed since Elizabeth Quinn last entered the online dating ‘bear pit’ but the slower pace of distanced love is a revelation
A few years ago, while travelling in Europe, I met an Englishwoman in her early 70s. She introduced her husband to me by saying, “This is Bill. I advertised for him in the Guardian.”
Twelve years before, when they had both been in their early sixties, Bill had responded to her newspaper advertisement. Over the next few weeks a correspondence ensued, culminating in a meeting at a pub. They shared a counter lunch and a postprandial encounter of a different kind back at his place. She never went home.
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