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I wouldn't want to be a girl in the age of Tinder

Smartphone romance is all swipes, clicks and sexts. And real life is going the same way

14 February 2015

9:00 AM

14 February 2015

9:00 AM

My foray into the world of online dating was short-lived. Within a few hours of my profile going live, a deluge of young men in their early twenties began to bombard me with messages.

I was shocked and somewhat delighted. At my age, I had expected mostly sad widowers and maybe the odd divorced equine veterinarian, encouraged by the pictures of me on my horses.

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