New to London and ready to party, the last place Jonathan Seidler expected to spend Notting Hill Carnival was indoors discussing books with his future wife
expected to spend Notting Hill Carnival was indoors discussing books with his future wifearrived in London in the summer of 2018, around the same time as the dating app Hinge. Having been unceremoniously dumped a year before, I’d gone through the classic late-20s crisis playbook and quit my job, upped sticks and moved to the other side of the world on a work and travel visa.
The UK had been blessed with a once-in-a-century heatwave for months, but it came to an abrupt end that August weekend. When I finally alighted at Notting Hill station, it was bucketing down so hard that I could barely see ahead of me, or open my phone. Chatting books in a sodden sweater wasn’t how I’d imagined a weekend famed for its debauched and kinetic atmosphere, but for some reason, it felt extremely right.
I woke up the next day with a significant hangover and a stack of pings from the app. I deleted it so fast that I forgot to remove my profile first. Even through the lingering fog of lager, nicotine and tequila, I knew that my search was over and that Keren was the one.
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