Adventures in Dating By Gigi Flores and Helen Obispo

My last guest post was all about finding some interesting alternative date ideas, straying away from the usual dinner date or coffee shop. Now this was a few month ago, because since then, I have found myself in the company of a lovely gentleman, who as it happens is rather agreeable to alternative dating activities. 
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Before I was an active Poet, I was pretty much a full-time babysitter. I worked my 9-5 all week, took classes in Grad School, and I took care of my baby nephew at least four days a week. I pretty much raised that child for about four years before I started doing ANYTHING for myself. Still, we have to take into account all the places I was going while I wasn’t hanging out-school, bookstores, grocery and drug stores, work, etc…all places where I COULD have met men, but really didn’t, or when I DID, they just didn’t work for me. Plus, I was at the tail end of my first major relationship which lasted nearly ten years and all of my adult life at that point.
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