Dating Before The Swipe

Dating Before the Swipe: 9 Stories of Madness and Mayhem (But Thankfully Not Murder)Once upon a time, there was no swiping left or right. There were no smartphones, no apps, no algorithms designed to find your perfect match. There was just a newspaper, a pen, and a frankly alarming amount of optimism. Dating Before the Swipe is the story of one woman's quest to find love using whatever tools were available at the time: personal ads, telephone dating, and eventually the wild new frontier of internet dating websites. What followed was chaos, confusion, bad decisions, and men who really should have known better. Funny, honest, and occasionally horrifying, this is a short memoir for anyone who remembers the days before the swipe, and a fascinating history lesson for anyone who doesn't. Names have been changed. Some memories may be slightly addled. Nobody was murdered.