Speed dating seemed simple: talk, rotate, repeat.
But after a few rounds, everyone sounded like a résumé with a pulse. Then one conversation went completely off-script—and turned out to be the only one that actually felt real.
Maybe the problem with speed dating isn’t the dating.
Maybe it’s the speed.
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