Looking back at dating in the early Noughties, you'd think life was easier then. But it wasn't. In a world without Tinder but inundated with young women brought up on Sex and the City, one man limps and drinks his way through and lives to tell the tale. This is the story of he who dated the Carries and Bridgets.

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