From Gimlet, this is Reply All. Show about the Internet. I'm Alex Goldman, and I'm PJ

Vova. And one of the things about doing a show about the Internet is that people are often

suggesting that you do stories about online dating, and we often choose not to. And then

a few weeks ago, our friend Stephanie Fu, who's normally a producer at this American

life, came to us with this story that was unlike any online dating story that either of

us had ever heard. Stephanie, I'll take it from here.

So a couple years ago, I interviewed this girl. Her name is Suzanne. She lives in San Francisco,

and she'd met this really cute guy on OKCupid. And everyone knows that when it comes to online

dating, people can be really non-committal, unwilling to settle down. But this guy she met,

let's calm John. Right from the beginning, John was really warm. He just had a way of taking

really ordinary little situations and just making them fun and playful, and was very thoughtful

with like making me breakfast, with like, hide like my favorite snacks in my purse, and

which is a really sweet, really sweet loyal person. John was Scandinavian, muscular, attractive.

He seemed unreal, like a dream boyfriend. He offered her the keys to his apartment

really early on in their relationship, which surprised her. And he gave her a little shelf

for her stuff in his apartment. And when she told him she had to go to the DMV, not only

did he offer to come, he made a date out of it. He made it fun, took her to lunch. He

even included her in a bunch of his domestic decision making.

John was renovating his apartment, so we went to CB2 and he was looking for the perfect

couch. And at one point, we had to spoon on various couches to see if they were wide enough

for us to spoon on. And if, you know, hence they would be appropriate for his apartment.

The sales girl was kind of laughing at us, and you know, I was kind of thinking my mind,

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