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This is npr. LifeKit. I'm reporter Andrew Limbaugh. Leslie Boston Hyde is a Travel Nurse,

meaning she goes to different hospitals, filling in for other nurses. She specializes in being

an OR nurse and is actually doing her first in Southern California right now. She's also

recently divorced and meeting new people in a new city after a five-year relationship.

Not to mention the past year and a half we all just had and well, I had no clue what I was doing.

Just kind of like a lot of other people I'm sure. This summer bars are open. Barbecues are going,

parties are a thing again. It's a big summer for Flirtig. Something Leslie's never been good at.

When I asked her exactly how not good she compared herself to a potato. Anyway,

on a whim one evening I decided to watch a thunderbacks game at a bar after work.

She's originally from Arizona, a lifelong diamond backs fan, and she noticed the guy down the bar

wearing a Phoenix Suns hat. After her divorce, she had issues with

misreading signals and guys ghosting her. So she really wasn't feeling like putting herself out

there all that much. But on this night, in this bar, there was Phoenix Suns Hat Guy.

And I thanked myself while he's pretty cute. And he might be up for random

followers on the sports fan to pick up her beer and sit next to him.

We end up hitting it off without a hitch.

Okay, did you catch that big long breath? The one that left out all the tiny moments that

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