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Date My Friend: A Single Dating & Relationships Editor In New York City

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Date My Friend: A Single Dating & Relationships Editor In New York City

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Dating in any big city is tough, but when it comes down to it, New York City is definitely one of the toughest. So naturally, some of the best love stories my friend Taylor has are from the Swoon articles she reads each day as Senior Editor of Odyssey's dating and relationships vertical, which... yikes — like BIG yikes.

So as any good pal should do, I'm putting her on blast publicly (sorry, Taylor) and hoping whoever sees this might be able to help me play matchmaker and save her from all the mediocre guys she meets. Here's what you need to know:

About Taylor:

Age: 26
Height: 5'3.5" (she insisted I add the extra half inch)
School: Fordham University, Class of 2016
Job: Senior Editor of Swoon at Odyssey
Location: New York City
Hometown: Ridgefield, Connecticut

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Not in the frame: the food and bellinis we scarfed down minutes before 🍴🥂
A post shared by taylor mead (@tayloramead) on Aug 24, 2019 at 2:22pm PDT

Taylor's Preferences:

Dogs or cats? Dogs... the only appropriate answer, obviously.
Night owl or morning person? 110 percent not a morning person. Don't talk to her before 9 a.m.
"The Bachelor" or "Keeping Up With The Kardashian"? "The Bachelor." But if there were an option to give Chris Harrison and Kris Jenner a TV show together, she'd watch that for sure...
Baby Yoda or Baby Groot? Baby Yoda memes every time, but she hasn't even seen "The Mandalorian," so that's upsetting.
Sweet or salty? Always sweet. She'll choose chocolate over everything.

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Jet lag who? Jk the bags under my eyes are so big American Airlines could have charged me to check them. Worth it though.
A post shared by taylor mead (@tayloramead) on Sep 25, 2019 at 2:01pm PDT

Never has Taylor ever: had a cup of coffee.

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My face when the customs officer opened my luggage to search it and found it was 95% chocolate.
A post shared by taylor mead (@tayloramead) on Sep 29, 2019 at 5:44pm PDT

Random Facts:

She can rap all of Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass."
She tends to abbreviate words that don't need to be abbreviated.
She's always down to watch sports, but mostly just for the food and friends.

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#sports 🏈
A post shared by taylor mead (@tayloramead) on Feb 3, 2019 at 6:50pm PST

Four qualities Taylor is looking for in a partner and one she's absolutely not:

Open communication ✓
Trust✓
Humor ✓
A dog ✓
"I'm just a bad texter" ✗

Want to respectfully slide into Taylor's DMs? They're open here:

Instagram:@tayloramead
Twitter:@tayloramead

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Date My Friend: A Single Dating & Relationships Editor In New York City

Fingers crossed she forgives me for this.

About Taylor:

Taylor's Preferences:

Never has Taylor ever: had a cup of coffee.

Random Facts:

Four qualities Taylor is looking for in a partner and one she's absolutely not:

Want to create a funny dating profile for a friend, too?

Click here for our easy-to-use template you'll just have to copy and paste.

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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