Why Every Bad Date Has a Literary Soul

After a string of perplexing encounters, I was surprised at the lofty themes that kept emerging.

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My memoir, No One You Know, details a time that I was far from friends and reeling from a breakup, so I noticed myself becoming much more open to strangers like dental hygienists and drifters and taxi drivers. Starved of intimacy and…