Maybe she was embarrassed about it, I thought. She certainly wasn’t willing to share it with me
Shani Leiman with Zivia Reischer
Kayla was 26 when she started dating Yechiel, who was the same age. “He checks off all the boxes,” she reported after their third date. “And the conversation flows, we don’t run out of things to talk about.”
The fourth date was intense. “It was one long hashkafah conversation,” she told me. “But it was good, we agree on the main things. And I appreciate that we’re able to really talk through an issue together.”
Dates five, six, and seven went well for both of them. Kayla started saying things like, “I wonder if this could really be it?”
Yechiel wasn’t asking that question; he was saying things like, “When do you think she’ll be ready?”
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