it’s more that the pictures left only the vaguest sense of what his real face looked like. A slightly out-of-focus shot of him at a rugby match, a group shot at a wedding taken from a distance, and one of him with sunglasses and a baseball cap on some sort of boat. I mean, sunglasses and a hat on a dating profile pic? That’s just ridiculous. But from the little I could make out, I thought there was at least a 60 percent chance of him being really handsome, and that was a bet I was willing to take.

