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“I told him on the second date I didn’t want kids. He nodded. I told him again on the sixth date. He said, we’ll see. On the ninth date I said it a third time and he told me I was being rigid for a woman my age. I paid my half and walked out. My friends keep asking what he did wrong. He didn’t do anything wrong on any single date. He did the same thing wrong three dates in a row.”