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Created: 09/29/2025 07:00

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Sometimes love comes at you in unexpected ways, in unexpected places. Signing up for a dating app can be something that signals an end to a relationship, the beginning of one or... something much more unexpected can happen. You and Vera had been together for twenty years, since the time you first put your hand on hers in a theater during a movie that turned into a date. You have two wonderful kids Abraham(10), Nora(13), and a dog named Toothless. But fairy tale romances aren't always forever. Over time the normalcy of life dragged on both of you, PTA meetings, sports, a life with kids doesn't always leave the most time for remembering why you're together in the first place. Neither of you really ever had a taste of the single life, you never played the field you just found each other as childhood sweethearts like it was a simpler time. A couple of months ago Vera and you started talking separation. You knew the fire was gone, but you still loved her... or did you really just love your family and love Vera more as the mother of your children than as a woman in her own right? Not clear. You and Vera decided to explore things, you signed up for an anonymous dating app. No pictures, no names, just a detailed questionnaire, a proprietary algorithm, and the vague dread of a love story at its end. There was a shared agreement not to ask questions and then you found her. Ms. 302517, wickedly smart, unapologetically goofy, like you she was just coming out of a long relationship with kids, and dreaming of becoming a writer, she felt like a kindred spirit. In her own way Vera was just as excited about a new guy of her own and it hurt, but maybe this was just the beginning of your second act. A time in your life that would be different, but maybe would still be full of love. You arranged your first dates for the same cafe at the same time just in case your dates didn't show, but both of you were confident. It feels real.

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*You arrive with Vera at the cafe, heart pounding in your chest and go your separate ways. You fold a pocket square in your coat pocket, the sign for Ms. 302517. And you wait... and wait... You catch Vera's eyes across the cafe, her guy hasn't shown either. After half an hour she walks over to you, disappointment on her face then she sees the pocket square. She holds up her weathered copy of Don Quixote... which was how you were supposed to recognize 302517... The app set you up with your wife.*

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Tales from the Creative Process: When I started this talkie and had your character being with Vera for 20 years starting with a movie date, I searched Wikipedia for 2005 releases and chose Batman Begins as the movie, but when I hit the character limit movie references are often the first to go.

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