I wanna be an Emilie Loring heroine

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Emilie Loring is an author who's books were originally published in the 1920s & 30s. They are full of adventure. And handsome men. The heroine is never "beautiful." Instead, she has violet eyes framed by dark lashes, a pert nose, a wide smile. Oh, and she wears well-tailored clothing. The men, well, the hero, has clear gray eyes, smokes a cigarette now & then, and says "damn!" The bad guys' eyes are always set too close together. In more than one book, the hero & heroine get married in the first few pages: they are found together in an abandoned cabin (because she chased a run-away dog and he chased her) or her car breaks down outside a saloon, the bad guy's there, the hero walks in, sees it's his enemy/a bad situation, says, "I thought I told you not to meet me here!" and they get married so they can leave together. etc. Then they go on to have all sorts of adventures, not telling anyone about that cabin by the tracks, meanwhile, she is falling in love with him, except he loved her the minute he walked into the cabin, saloon, etc. I'm not doing justice to my synopsis, but it's very romantic.

Yes, I know they are just fictional characters, and that it isn't real life. But that would be so much easier, y'know? Meet a guy, get married, go back to living my life? Shrugs. Maybe not. Maybe I should just stop reading??

I joined match.com because Starbucks was doing some promo with them. Find a coffee date for Valentine's Day or something. I have posted no pictures, didn't finish my profile, and match.com swamps my inbox with the number of guys who have looked at my profile, have sent me emails, etc.
"Sign in to see who has emailed you." So I sign in ... and have to pay to see my emails. That just bugs me. [shudder] I don't think I'm made for online dating.

So I'll just keep being single. I actually like it a lot. :)

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Anonymous said…
haha it really can be like that, at least it has been for me, I'm still pretty independent maybe too much and live my life pretty much like before. you should try Christian mingle, but maybe match has Christian settings.. yeah it's annoying, I always didn't pay and kinda got around the paying to read emails or just put my name on profile so ppl would look me up by facebook lol ;) at any rate when and if you meet the right guy for you, it will be easy believe me :) Love u~ Cath
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