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Hi, I am Sage and I recently, about a year and a half ago, was on the dating app Hinge.

Dating apps were never really a part of my life at all.

I'm in my 20s, though.

I had done the whole university and grad school thing and then I moved back after grad school.

The world shut down because of COVID and the only way you met people or really got to

know anybody was they were either your neighbor or you knew them from your past somehow and

meeting new people to date was kind of out of the question because you don't really want

to date your neighbor.

You don't want to date co-workers.

You're only meeting your co-workers through Zoom anyways.

So I had some friends in the area that were my neighbors and they were all encouraging

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