Love & other drugs

Laura Armstrong, 35, West Drayton

Swiping through the profiles on the dating app, I spotted a cutie.

Connor looks dishy! I thought, swiping right.

Handsome, bearded, lived an hour away from me.

And he clearly liked what he saw, too.

It was a match!

Soon, we were messaging back and forth.

Learning about each other’s lives, telling each other about our day.

A week later, in March 2018, things were still going well.

Fancy meeting up today? Connor typed.

I’d love to, I replied. But…

See, there was something I hadn’t told him.

Quite a lot, actually.

I’d been born with the bone disease fibrous dysplasia.

It affected the