GREAT READS Issue 923 · August 10, 2022

Profile #37

Still single?That’s nothing a marketing campaign can’t solve

Profile #37

Suri leaned closer to her steering wheel, and grabbed her latest marketing book before it fell off the dashboard. “Why the late night? On a date?”

“No, I was not on a date. You know I haven’t dated in six months. Actually, if you really want to know, I did have a date. With the tests I had to grade. And it was a very bad, one-sided conversation date. Me yelling at the tests!

“And actually, it’s been seven months, ‘cuz the last time I dated was before Succos, which barely counts. It was a one and done. I don’t have a single dating outfit in my closet from this season — and it’s not like it even matters. And I just know that Gitty’s gonna do one of her coughing chains in class today. She always somehow knows when I’m tired. And Mrs. Strickman will for sure come observe me today. And then she’ll go and suggest another crazy shidduch idea—”

“What you need,” broke in Suri, “is some good PR.”

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