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id="_idTextSpan5774" >– searched for the all-too-familiar website and with a single click (having set the login details to remember me in the past) went straight to his profile page.

- You mean to say that English is the dating sites koine like French is that of diplomacy? But it’s something that even the stones know.

- The stones definitely not, just those in the know.

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Chapter 5

Babis never really thought much of dating websites. The idea of finding a date on one of them was as de-grading as finding a wife through the traditional mar-riage agencies. He wanted his conquest to be of his own merit, without the help of some social media, just as he wanted to get a job, not thanks to the media-tion of an acquaintance, but because of his skills and qualifications. For as long as he resisted their Siren’s song exactly because you resist something that you disdain, otherwise you’d give in to it without a fight he drew not only the satisfaction of one who insists on living (but for how long?) without a car, TV, mobile phone or internet access, but also the pride of one who would, not even as a joke, never ever consider going to a brothel, despite not having had sex in ages.

He was forced to give in, however, when he realised the following basic things: That firstly, just like when women go to the beach with swimwear not much different to their underwear, or will not care at all if their knickers show when loping around a tennis court whereas in other circumstances they would make a

- Borderline.

- Blame it on political correctness.

It’s not called a “conquest” in this day and age. It’s not a fortress, for heaven’s sake.

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big fuss out of it, as soon as they go on a dating web-site, they reveal three basic pieces of information that they normally would only confide in to their best friends: they are alone, they can’t stand being alone anymore, they are looking for a man. Big deal, right-fully so, some would say. But not Babis who’d spent a lifetime racking his brain to figure out whether this girl or that was taken or not, or still searching to the point where he’d be prepared to hire a detective to find out. Because, knowing that before making a pass at her would either give him the necessary strength to go through with it, or would deter him, saving him from almost surely getting pied off. An experience whose bitter taste

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