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Allison P. Davis: My Tinder Decade

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How did a dating app become my longest running relationship?

This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. I first downloaded Tinder in the spring of 2013, seven months after it launched. I’d heard about it as a concept (Grindr for straights) but felt exempt from needing it until one evening at the tail end of a drawn-out breakup with someone I’d told myself I would marry. We were at a restaurant in San Francisco, having one of too many brutal good-bye dinners that led to this-is-the-last-time-I-swear sex, and I put the app on my phone in front of him. He stoically chugged h

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