WE BOTH LIED ON OUR PROFILES — AND IT STILL WORKED OUT

I should start by saying they weren’t malicious lies. They were... embellishments. I claimed to be an "avid reader," but in reality, I hadn't finished a book in six months. I used a photo from a mountain I had hiked two years and ten pounds ago. I was presenting the best, most polished version of myself—the version I aspired to be. I matched w