Not to be a total downer, but isn’t looking for love a little like playing a lifelong game of musical chairs? You search and you search, but every trip around the proverbial circle yields fewer and fewer options until, eventually, you either find a seat or find that all the seats have been taken, amirite? We get it. Which is why, with this year’s Love Issue, we asked our readers to nominate the best catch they know (or themselves, because who can judge, really, when even lobsters are mistaken to mate for life and we’re all just trying to find the one person who sets our hearts aflame, OKAY?). We promised that, if their nominees were game, we’d print their answers to our Q&A in the paper. The results, on page 18, are 20 of the area’s bravest bachelors and bachelorettes. Plus, we take an inside look at a new matchmaking service, meet a couple whose romance rekindled in these very pages and, for good measure, hear a few terrible date stories, because love’s all fun and games until someone cooks a lamb chop for a vegetarian.
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