There was a time not long ago that people didn't exchange any emails before the first date. People either met in public at dances, the library, the grocery store, at school, ... or they used personal ads in the newspaper. Typically when answering a personal ad, it would be one phone conversation. People didn't wait before meeting someone for the first time. If things went well on that very first phone conversation, people often made arrangements to meet right away, or they exchanged phone numbers and met after the second conversation. Read more

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