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Do you think creationism should be taught alongside evolution in schools? Yes.
Do you like having intellectual conversations? No.
Would you rather be considered weird or normal? Normal.
How important is religion in your life? Very important.After filling in the answers, the computer did its voodoo and brought up my matches. Hot tip: Turns out that men who think homosexuality is a sin are FRIGHTENING. The majority of profile pics would have made excellent mug shots. Lots of meaty faces, dead eyes, and spiky hair. If you are wildly attracted to Fred Durst, this is your demo. On the whole, the dudes were conservative, working in finance, and living outside of New York City (Jersey and Long Island were repping hard).
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Him: I work in real estate and write for a sports blog.
[Long silence]
Me: [Deciding not to follow up on that] Where did you grow up?
Him: Long Island.
Me: How many brothers do you have?
Him: Frat brothers or actual brothers?
Me: Are you serious?The date was off to a rocky start but after a couple more drinks we both loosened up a lot. He was really polite and asked me a lot of questions and was a very engaged listener. I was impressed with how open he was to meeting someone totally different, to learning about me. He seemed like a genuinely good guy. We covered the usual first date topics: family, jobs, places we wanted to travel. It was starting felt like a real date.As we continued drinking things got a lot flirtier and sillier, we shared some food and started laughing at dumb jokes. I was finding excuses to touch his arm and by the time the check arrived, I was wasted. He paid the check (zing) and we stumbled out of the bar. Wandering into McCarren Park we decided to “hang out” on a bench for a while. Suddenly, all our differences—religious, political, sartorial—became irrelevant, the point was we were both hornly (horny + lonely).I am not going to give you the gory details but I will leave you with this; I might be preggs and the baby is going to have a huge fucking head. Sike! It didn’t go that far. I don’t have real sparks with Mike, I’m positive that without adventure juice (four strong cocktails) nothing would have happened. This experiment is finished in the formal sense, but I hope I’m always challenging myself to be open to new people. Finding romance is tough but it’s impossible if you are looking for some idealized image in your head. I really think I’ve changed my…oh dang….I think that barista with a rat tail is looking at me. Is he looking? Anyway, like I said, I feel like I’ve really changed and…Shit, he’s coming over here, gotta go.@rosesurnow