Angels on Earth magazine

Valentine Angels

It’s a Small World

What am I doing? I asked myself as I sat in front of my laptop looking at a stranger’s profile—on a dating site of all things. My husband and I had divorced after a long marriage; we had grown children; and I hadn’t dated since I was a teenager. It wasn’t just introducing myself to someone online that was new to me. Everything about this was foreign.

My fingers hovered over the “send” button. , I thought, . Before I lost my nerve, I sent my introduction. I got a response a few hours later. We started messaging

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