How I Learned Confidence from Online Posers

As a 42-year-old, newly single mom, I was a little insecure when I joined Match.com to meet a nice guy. I described myself as a feminist law professor, interested in liberal intellectuals within five years, plus or minus, of my age. The people who contacted me only eroded my confidence, however. I got cryptic messages from much older and more conservative high school grads, pictured on their motorcycles. These suitors and I ostensibly had nothing in common.