Woman's Own

Break for Freedom

Lenina was pleasantly surprised as she walked towards him.

He appeared normal. And nice-looking, with his curly brown hair and dark beard to match.

All the others that she had met so far hadn’t looked much like their profile pictures.

There had been Dave. His profile had shown a tall man with piercing green eyes. When she saw him for their date, he looked like he hadn’t washed for days, with his greasy hair and an ill-fitting suit that was stained and stretched. His eyes weren’t green either.

Tom hadn’t been much better. His picture had revealed his athleticism, but in real life she couldn’t help but wonder if he could even identify a pair of running shoes.

Could this man in front of her be ‘the one’?

Of course it wasn’t all about looks, not at all. But when Darren spoke, he was arrogant, and conversation with Geoff was limited to golf and gambling. And Anthony had gazed at her with such slavish adoration on their very first date,

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