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The 1865 Version Of Tinder
“A man advertising for a wife in Maine, 1865.”
CHANCE FOR A SPINSTER–a young man in Aroostook County, Maine advertising for a wife, speaks of himself as follows: “I am eighteen years old, and have a good set of teeth and believe in Andy Johnson, the star spangled banner, and the 4th of July. I have taken up a State lot, cleared 18 acres last year, and seeded ten of it down. My buckwheat looks first rate, and the oats and potatoes are bully. I have got nine sheep, a two-year-old bull, and two heifers, besides a house and barn. I want to get married. I want to buy bread-and-butter, hoop skirts, and waterfalls for some person of the female persuasion during life. That’s what’s the matter with me. But I don’t know how to do it.”
(via source)
A Man For All Tinder Matches
“My friend wasn’t having any luck on Tinder ’til he updated his pictures.”
(via source)
Portrait Of A Doomed Relationship
“This is a picture of my college roommate and his girlfriend, taken when they were in high school. They planned to stay together and each had photos taken like this–she’s on the phone because they ‘planned to call each other every day.’ He hung this photo on his wall in our freshman dorm room. They didn’t last.”
(submitted by Joe)
Chill, Grandpa
“A love letter my deceased grandfather wrote to a girl in his youth. Approximately 1942.”
(via source)
