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Jen Kaarlo

Jen Kaarlo is a dating, sex, and women’s rights writer and commentator

<p>‘I don’t know what happened with Bill and Melinda, but I do know that I relate to the idea that I could no longer see a future with my husband’</p>

Like Bill and Melinda Gates, we decided we couldn’t grow old together

<p>I didn’t know what to make of dating during a pandemic, but moments after meeting him, I thought I had met my match</p>

Lockdown has made it impossible to get over my recent heartbreak