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Single at Seminary: An Online Dating Experience

I want to be married. And yet, I’m still single. Thinking God might need a more active role from me, I decided to join the online dating scene through eHarmony.  It was a three-month adventure, for sure, but not one I care to repeat. Everyone I never wanted to meet, I met via online dating.

The very first match I received was an exceptionally attractive man, whose name shall remain anonymous. I’ll simply refer to him as The Camel. (Watch out – he spits.) 

We talked on the phone twice, and then agreed to meet in a public place. Sure I thought he talked a lot, but I believed in grace and wrote it off as nervousness.  Before we met, he asked that no matter what, we keep the date to two hours.  That sounded like a reasonable boundary, so I agreed. 

Then, I met The Camel in person.

Bless his heart, he talked […]

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