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Online Dating Services Draw Customers, Make Profits.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2002
By Jennifer Beauprez, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 1-- Becky Armstrong once scoffed at the idea of finding a soul mate on the Internet.
The Colorado Springs secretary scoffs no more. This summer, she'll tie the knot with Thom Skinner, a middle school band director from Illinois she met a year ago on EHarmony.com. She signed up for the online dating service on a lark with her housemates, figuring it was good for a laugh.
"If we met each other on the street, we probably wouldn't have been together," said Armstrong, 26, "because, as humans, we're all superficial and we go by appearances. Through the Internet, I got to know him from the inside out."
People such as Armstrong and Skinner are helping to...
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