Pick Me Up!

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I flung my phone down on the sofa with a huff.

‘I’ve had enough,’ I said to my son Keeton, 24.

It was August 2015, and I’d been on Plenty of Fish for a few months after a colleague had raved about it.

For the past 24 years, I’d dated on and off, but there was never anything serious.

As a single mum to three kids – Leah, now 34, Wade, 32, and Keeton – there was no time.

Now, though, with the kids all grown up and only Keeton living at home, I agreed to try the dating app.

What harm could it do? I thought to myself.

But I’d had no luck – since signing up, I hadn’t spoken to anyone nice, let alone someone I’d want to meet in person and share my life with.

‘Give it one more day, Mum,’ Keeton urged, desperate for

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