The summer I found ‘love’ in a language-learning app
How I was swindled into wiring almost $1,000 to a man in Haiti
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18 min readApr 12, 2024
It was the summer of 2015. Back then, my nights (and sometimes days) were spent zipping around the stiff carpet of a Texas steakhouse with a sizzling hot tray balancing upon my right palm. It was hardly the dream, but it was definitely a job and I desperately needed to…