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Lori Long and Mark Contreras met on Match.com in November 2015. For Long, their first date a few weeks later, at Tarpy’s Roadhouse, a restaurant in Monterey, California, was a high-stakes proposition.
“Within our first few emails we were really clicking,” she said. Telling him about the spinal disease that causes her to pitch forward and walk with a cane before he had a chance to meet her, she thought, might have been off-putting. But…
