Blind Date with a Book Boyfriend

by Lucy Eden

I’ve read enough romance novels to think that this was a great idea, but I’ve also listened to enough episodes of My Favorite Murder to think the exact opposite.

I wonder if this is how it feels when you meet the person you will eventually fall in love with, or when you meet the person who is about to murder you. I imagined the salesperson telling the police, “I knew something was off with that dude,

The woman said that there’s never a way to predict a favorable outcome. There’s never a right time, a perfect amount of money, or an instruction manual. There’s only love and everything in life is an unpredictable leap of faith.”

“Then I spend a lot of time and money flying back and forth to New York to try to convince you to forgive me and give me a second chance.”

“What if I don’t get it?” “Then you don’t get it. You apply for something else and keep going until you do get something.” “And what if I get it and I hate it?” “Then you apply for something else and keep going until you get something you don’t hate.

No amount of logical reasoning would justify

giving up the opportunity of a lifetime for a man who’d spent a day sweeping me off my feet.