The Night Before Meeting Up
The night before our big offline meetup, my roommate took one look at my internet boyfriend's photo and declared it was a fake.
"Using a stolen photo for an online romance? He's definitely insecure and too ugly to show his real face!"
The next day, my boyfriend texted: [Sorry, something came up at the last minute. Can you wait half an hour?]
I breathed a sigh of relief because I had just been notified about an exclusive expert lecture on campus. Word was, the speaker was an academic powerhouse, and the university had paid a fortune to secure him.
I snagged a seat in the front row. But the moment I looked up at the podium, my stomach dropped.
Why did this famous scholar look so much like my boyfriend in the "stolen photo"?