On the Internet, Love Really Is Blind (Published 2001)
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On the Internet, Love Really Is Blind (Published 2001)
The negative side effects from this new way of living are too countless to list. We don’t have the patience for anything, let alone the slow unfolding of human emotion. Ask anyone on a dating app how that looks up close, how it plays out over time. Pundits lament that the global populace is enduring a plague of psychobabble that adds up to elaborat
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