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Cupid Tinder Match: Dear (Your Name Here)

Reporting live from the murder scene of your dating hopes and dreams

Niki Marinis
2 min readJan 8, 2022
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Oh man! I found a folder of old drafts of ridiculousness from before Covid times! Because the Good Lord knows I don’t fuck with online dating anymore. So please enjoy this back-log from The Before Time, in the Long Long Ago.

Guy on OKC: Hi my names Manolo…I think you’re gorgeous and sexy as hell… but I’m sure you get that a lot… I’d love to meet you sometime.. I live in Santa Barbara as well…I’m a professional/private chef and I’ve taken a couple masseuse classes..I’m mixed Italian/Spanish I’m 30 I surf skate Snowboard along with other activities… I’m 8" and love to please if that intrigues you… ;) text me if your interested.. fingers crossed I hear from you soon bye for now I Hope ps I love your beautiful eyes and curves

*sigh*

  1. This is clearly a form letter you tack a PS on to add something semi-personal.

2. I don’t live in Santa Barbara. The profile you obviously didn’t read clearly states I live in Ventura. See: form letter.

3. What’s with all the ellipses? Just stop.

4. If you’re going to send a form letter, or contact anyone on any platform in any way, shape or form, you should spell things correctly and…

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Niki Marinis
Niki Marinis

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Weird Girl, thrift store owl collector, heartbreaker, lush, aspiring adult. IG: DocJohnnyFever nikimarinis@gmail.com https://nikimarinis.medium.com/subscribe

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