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I haven't been here in ages, but kadharonon inspired me, and I have a lot of random scribble fragments sitting around on my hard drive, so I figured I could post some of them.

Let's see... I found this the other day:

Lonely Chemist Finds Solace Among the Octopi

Simone Beauville and her husband just celebrated their union in an aquarium wedding. “My colors were baby blue and teal,” she said, grinning, when asked about the decor. “It goes so nicely with white.”

The couple met a few months ago at that very same aquarium. “It has been something of a whirlwind romance,” Simone admits, “but from the first, we felt a very deep connection. A deep-sea connection, you might say.”

The 32-year-old works at a high-powered pharmaceutical company in the Boston area, and says that she values the opportunity to relax in the evenings after a long day developing drugs to treat cancer and auto-immune disorders.

“I’d been looking for someone for a long time,” she says, when asked about how the two met. “You go through online dating, and it’s very grueling. A real meat market, and let me tell you, a lot of the guys you meet are definitely past their sell-by date, so to speak. It’s just exhausting.

“I was with a girlfriend at the aquarium, talking about my most recent date and how awful it was. It got to the point where I said to her, ‘You know, I’d rather date one of the fellows here than any of the guys I’ve met online. And, like, I kind of noticed that he looked interested, so after she had to go, I came back, and just started talking to him. He was so easy to talk to, didn’t talk over me, or get bored, or change the subject to something else.”

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