#NerdsUnite: My name is Alicia and I'm doing 50 dates in 50 states (Intermission)
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#NerdsUnite: My name is Alicia and I'm doing 50 dates in 50 states (Intermission)

Blasting through the country has led to some strange and possibly displaced emotions. Simultaneously I am soaking up the landscape, history, stories and existence of our country on a level that was incomprehensible before (and in many ways is still hard to truly understand) while a little piece of my head is bummed I have missed art show openings and birthdays of friends.

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#NerdsUnite: My name is Alicia and I'm doing 50 dates in 50 states (Arkansas)
Jen Friel Jen Friel

#NerdsUnite: My name is Alicia and I'm doing 50 dates in 50 states (Arkansas)

When a polyamorous man in Arkansas agreed to go out with me, my first thought was “Holy molasses, was it rude that I didn’t invite his wife and girlfriend too?” What worried me most about going out with a polyamorous man was simply the logistics of polyamory. Everything else was merely a first date in the purest sense of the term: Meet. Eat. Walk. The usual.

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