Online Dating Venting (Somewhat Risque, Read At Your Own Peril)

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EDIT: as somebody who a) can't deal with parties and b) has friends who very loudly don't know anybody, these 'old days' sound far worse.

We had to make the friends and learn to endure the parties. Yes, on one level it was awful. But on another level, it created a pool of shared experiences that bound us more closely into "the society of our peers", where "peers" is understood to include "people with whom we had basically nothing in common".

In retrospect, that wasn't such a bad thing.