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‘I guess he’s panicking because I’ve stood him up I’d hate someone to stand me up But, like I said, I just can’t face all that silly, pointless conversation’

‘He doesn’t appear to be overly heartbroken In fact he see up an older woman at the bar’

‘What?’

‘Blonde hairsether’ Maybe because she was his original date

‘I don’t believe it! Didn’t I tell you?’ Susie said bitterly ‘Serious relationships Ha! One-night stand relationships, more like it’

She h with the ordeal but she was insulted that she had been du interviewed for the job

‘Online dating isn’t what it’s cracked up to be Forget about all those pictures of starry-eyed couples gazing lovingly at one another over a ro like star-struckJust look ataround and wait a few minutes for me to show up’

‘I thought you were trying to avoid him?’

‘That’s not the point The point is that he could have hung around a bit longer before ave him the time of day!’

Susie wouldn’t have dreauy via a co closer, and she couldn’t face showing up without any boyfriend in tow or, worse, with one of her arty, creative croould be politely dismissed as yet another loser because ‘poor little Susie’ just didn’t seem to have what it took to find herself a halfway decent boyfriend

Poor little Susie can’t even get her love-life in order

She knew she shouldn’t care, but the big Three-Oh was only five years away and she suddenly and inexplicably felt that her ti too much for one part of her life to be sorted out?

‘I’llsites on the internet Why don’t you have a glass of wine and take your coat off, by the way?’

‘There’s no need to keep chatting to otten your name’

‘You can call io And you are?’