Never Too Late

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Deborah Copaken, 有时候你不得不失去爱情，才能找回它. 纽约时报中文网, Nov 29, 2015
cn.nytstyle.com/living/20151127/t27modern/

, which is translated from

Deborah Copaken, Never-Too-Late Bloomers. Once planted, love never disappears. It just needs a ray of light to bloom. New York Times, Nov 29, 2015.

Excerpt in the window of print: An interviewer urges a subject not to make the same mistake she did and to run to his lost love.

Note:
(a) "My interview with Justin McLeod was winding down when I tossed out one last question: 'Have you ever been in love?' ”

See the next posting.

(b) "a sculptor with a focus on the nexus between libidinal imagery and blossoms"
(i) The "libidinal" is the adjective for "libido."
(ii) libido (n; from Latin, desire, lust, from libēre to please — more at LOVE): "sexual desire"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/libido
(iii) The word libido is used in psychology, especially in psychoanalysis (think Freud).

(c) "His work brought him to New York a few months later, and we met for a springtime lunch on a bench in Central Park. I was so flummoxed, I kicked over my lemonade and dropped my egg salad sandwich: Our long-lost love was still there."

flummox (vt; origin unknown): "CONFUSE"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flummox
(d) "another Kate — [Katharine] Hepburn, who had appeared in the comedies of remarriage I had studied in college with Stanley Cavell.

Stanley Cavell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cavell
(1926- ;  the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University)

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Deborah Copaken on Justin McLeod:

Deborah Copaken, Put a Match.com to Tinder and Push Open the Hinge on Love. Scary Mommy,
http://www.scarymommy.com/my-dat ... d-the-ceo-of-hinge/

Note:
(a) "Love is alchemy, not SurveyMonkey."

Founded in 1999  and private, SurveyMonkey is a company developing online survey and based in Palo Alto, Calif.
(b) Enter Hinge, a mobile app that is not so much dating app as it is dating Yente, as its algorithm matches you with people with whom you share Facebook friends."

Yenta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yenta
(Yenta or Yente is a Yiddish designation for a woman who is a gossip or busybody. The female name is derived from Yentl [which was the title of 1983 film starring Barbra Streisand], in turn derived from a word in Old Italian which means kind or amiable; The name was used as the name of the matchmaker in the Broadway musical hit, Fiddler on the Roof [debuted in 1964])
(c) "The next day -- cue the rom-com [romatic comedy film] music -- she showed up in his Hinge feed."
(d) "At the end of the date [interview, actually], I asked him a simple question I am surprised no one has ever asked him before. 'Have you ever been in love?' I say. It's a throwaway question. I'm already late to pick up my eight-year-old from afterschool."

throwaway (adj): "something made or done without care or interest"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/throwaway
(e) "She is his Rosebud, it hits me"

Citizen Kane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane
(a 1941 film; the story is told through the research of a newsreel reporter seeking to solve the mystery of the newspaper magnate's dying word: "Rosebud"/ "Rosebud was the name of the sled from Kane's childhood in Colorado — a time when he was happy. Thought to be junk by Xanadu's staff, the sled is burned in a furnace" ('Xanadu, a vast palatial estate in Florida') / "Rosebud" was chosen the 17th most memorable movie quotation in a 2005 AFI poll)
(f) This article is very wordy. Just read the first few paragraphs and then search the word "Hinge" -- read until you reach "Rosebud."
(g) At the end of this article is "ABOUT THE WRITER."  The article itself is undated, but Copaken's Nov 17, 2014 (7:34 am) twitter suggested the interview was done the day before.  
https://twitter.com/dcopaken/status/534368966983294976

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Lizette Chapman, Hinge Raises $12 Million to Bring Dating Back to Reality. Wall Street Journal, Dec 11, 2015 (blog).
[url]blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/12/11/hinge-raises-12-million-to-bring-dating-back-to-reality/[.url]

Note: Nowadays $12 million is not much for a tech company.