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CONFESSIONS OF A 40-YEAR-OLD SINGLETON
WOMAN'S OWN
|October 26, 2021
Donna Smiley refuses to let her dating disasters put her off her quest for love
A bottle of red wine into my first date with hotel manager Luca*, aged 40, we swapped our worst dating stories. I recalled a first date I’d had in Colombia, where the man couldn’t speak English and I couldn’t speak Spanish. ‘He was a lovely guy,’ I said. ‘He brought his 19-year-old nephew to the date to translate and it was so awkward.’ Luca and I both laughed, and for the first time in a long time, I felt a little spark.
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