On dates more than a few of the handsome, rugged, athletic
types she thought she had been corresponding with looked more like
George Costanza than George Clooney. Some of those "single" guys turned
out to have wives. Feeling weary and, she said, "jerked around," Gold
let her paid subscription to Match.com expire, and she has turned to
real-life singles mixers for professionals. "It's a lot of effort, and
it's really no different from the people you meet in the offline
world," she said. "I'm becoming disenchanted. I've got people
contacting me from North Carolina and New Mexico, and that's not going
to work."

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