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instead called Kevin, a friend she’d
known since elementary school, for a man’s opinion.
         “It makes it hard for
sistas to separate the wheat from the chaff,” Kevin said.
         “Meaning?”
         “Approaching a woman
in person takes guts. You always risk rejection,” he said. “It doesn’t take any
balls to send a stranger an email. And behind a computer screen you can be
anybody you want to be.”
         “I guess you’re right.
That must’ve been the deal with Kenny. As long as nobody knows you’re fat, they
can’t reject you for it. But, I still don’t get the lying. If you tell somebody
you weigh one-ninety and you really weigh two-ninety, they’ll find out when you
meet.”
         “Who knows why people
do what they do,” Kevin said. “Maybe they figure they’ll never actually meet
anybody. Or maybe they think they can get you to fall in love and when you do
meet, you’ll be so emotionally involved you’ll just forget that he’s a midget
or his dick is only four inches.”
         “Believe me Kevin,
four inches is something most women would not overlook.”
          “That’s why every man online will tell
you he has a ten-inch dick and that means there are a whole lot of liars
online. You need to leave that mess alone. Did you find a church yet? Maybe you
can meet somebody there.”
        When they were young, Kevin
and Arianna’s families went to the same church. He still went every Sunday,
faithfully.
         “No. I haven’t found a
church yet, but I haven’t exactly been looking. I told you before I’m sick of
the dogma. Besides, you know damn well there ain’t no men in church. And the
few that do go are always in the pulpit trying to lead when most of them need
somebody to show their asses the way.”
         “We’re not going there
again. I told you what I think. You need to leave them Internet niggas alone.”

 
 
 
         Arianna didn’t take
Kevin’s advice.
         She figured there was
no harm in online dating as long as she was careful. If the brother turned out
to be perpetrating, she would just cut him loose.
         Most of the men she
met in person didn’t get a second date.
         Like the one whose
picture made him look six-feet tall, but who was actually five-seven and
weighed a hundred and thirty-five pounds.
           He was t oo damned skinny. P lus, he had a Napoleon complex and drove a
Navigator he practically needed a booster seat to drive.      
         At dinner, he bored
her to death with stories about his childhood that only he found funny.
         Then there was the
brother with five kids who talked all through lunch about how his wife left him
for a white guy she met online. They were getting married and buying a house
together. And men say sisters have too much baggage?
         Turned out his wife’s
Caucasian lover and soon to be husband was an ad rep at the Press Herald.
Arianna heard he liked to dip his spoon in black coffee, but she didn’t think
he’d give up the cream at home to drink the whole cup. Talk about a small
world.
         Arianna’s poor date
probably figured if his wife could meet somebody online so could he. Arianna
let him know she wasn’t the one.
         One guy took her out
for coffee and asked a million times if she was sure she was single because all
the women he met online lied about being married. He got one pregnant and found
out she was married when she asked for money to have an abortion. Her husband,
a sailor, was coming home from deployment and no way could she explain away a baby.
         Plus, he wore cheap
shoes. Enough said?
         The shit had become
downright comical. Just when she was about to give up, she got an email from a man
who intrigued her.

 
    Your smile is pure beauty. It radiates warmth that can provide shelter
from the cold. Your chocolate skin glows like the stars. I’m sure men melt to
your touch and find you