Forgotten as she may be, Morrison remains a trailblazer, and small martyr, for the countless people to have turned to media to boost their chances at finding romance.
The personal ad carries some unpleasant stigma. There has always been the suspicion that a proper, well-adjusted member of society should be able to find a mate in the real world, just like anyone else. And for most of its history, people taking out personal ads did so in a climate that easily found something desperate, dangerous, or doomed about the prospect of finding love by appealing in public to a mass of strangers. Yet with the internet, the institution marches on, and it’s stronger than ever.
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