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Car-crash romance

Fern Mann, 27, Littlehampton

Staring across the restaurant table in November 2015, my eyes were fixed on James.

His brown hair, blue eyes and sprinkling of stubble.

He didn’t look all that different from how I remembered him.

See, we’d matched on the online dating site Plenty of Fish back in 2013.

Messaging constantly for six months, I was smitten.

But living in two different towns made it hard for us to link up.

Soon, things fizzled out. We both dated other people but it never amounted to

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