A Perfect Record

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I met my wife through online dating, although whenever I tell people that, I usually leave out one important detail until the end.

It was a wet Thursday evening when I created the account. Rain tapped against my apartment window, the television muttered to an empty room, and a half-eaten takeaway sat cooling on the table.

For several months, my friends had been encouraging me to try online dating.

“You need to meet someone,” my friend Daniel had said.

“I meet people every day.”

“The cashier at the supermarket doesn’t count.”

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Nimra Khan — original fiction published on RapidTale.