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Sarah Whitemoore writes about dating and relationships at MarriageScience, where she has tested more than fifty dating platforms and spends most of her time on the parts of finding love that nobody romanticizes. She is still not very good at first dates. You can find her writing at https://marriagescience.com/author/sarah-whitemoore.

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The Year I Tried to Optimize My Way into Love

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“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” ~William Bruce Cameron

I noticed it halfway through the conversation.

We were outside a café on a warm Saturday, close enough to the next table that I could hear someone laughing behind me. The person across from me was telling a story about getting lost on a hike, because they had been certain they could manage without a map, and they were laughing at themselves as they told it. I laughed in the right place.

Then my attention slid. Sense of humor, strong. Conversation, easy. …