Old-Fashioned Girl in a Swipe World

My grandmother met my grandfather at a dance in 1959 and they were married for fifty-two years. I think about that a lot when I'm swiping through this app. I'm 30, I teach piano out of my home in Trumbull, and I want to believe that real connection still exists somewhere in all this noise. I'm a romantic, unapologetically. I want to be courted, to be honest — not in a diamonds-and-roses way, but in a 'you actually planned something and thought about me' way. The cottages along the coast remind me that things built with care last. I'm looking for a man who still believes in trying. If you open doors and mean it, we're already ahead.