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Hey, Nora.

I'm Nora McInerney, and this is thanks for asking, a call-in show about what matters to you.

Yes, she was catfished. Yes, she was scammed, but she also scammed the scammer.

Today, on Thanks for Asking, we have the story of a brave widow, waiting back into the dating pool and having it go, um, not great. I'm Nora McInerney.

This is thanks for asking, we are a call-in show about what matters to you. Now, if you are listening

to this on the podcast apps, you should also know we have a YouTube. Maybe you're tired of me

saying it. Well, then, I guess, uh, you have no choice but to go to YouTube. Subscribe. It's linked in our show description. Do the episodes come out right away there? No. They just kind of come out when they come out. Should we be better about that? Yes. Will we be? Perhaps. Maybe even today. But anyways, let's get on with the show, and let's talk about widowhood, dating, and yes, being catfished.

Okay, Jessica, you reached out, and the text was so intriguing.

I said, this is a woman I got to speak to. You are,

you're a widow. I am. Hey, hey, hey, how long have you been widowed? What was it like to jump back

into the dating pool? What are the temperatures? What is the temperature of the water in the dating

pool after you've been wet up? It is so frightening. It's terrible. It's obsolete. It's horrific.

But yeah, my husband died two years ago. It'll be two years in two weeks. So, yeah, it's been really interesting.

I was completely broken for at least the first year.

And then, I don't know, maybe at the start of this year, I was like, you know what,

I feel like I kind of want to do something different and not just be sad all the time.

So I went a little crazy and joined Match. And yeah, it's very interesting.

You know, I met my husband when I was 19. So I have been, you know, out of the dating scene for a very, very, very, very long time.

Yeah. Yeah. How did you meet your husband at 19?

Working backstage on a show in a local community theater. What, what were you doing? What was he

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