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MICHELLE LEE MATCHMAKING TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE, WHY WAIT?
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Written by: Jack Collier
or men, it is a barbershop. For women—and some men—it’s a salon.
The longer the relationship with your stylist, the more we confess. It’s an intimate thing involving touch and closeness, the squeezing of warm soap from our hair as we pick up where we left off. Just listening. And holding our secrets for the next visit.
Everyone has stumbled in the art of love. Some trip harder, of course. In modern times, we download our love dreams/hookups into a dating app … and cross our fingers. One such app has 400 million users, according to people keeping those statistics.
Michell Vazquez has streamed her salon/stylist experiences —and her life as a person with heartbreaks and boundless joy—into Michelle Lee Matchmaking. Her new service pairs dating professionals. A matchmaker’s job, she says, is structuring compatibility, to “really know who you are going
While app users will find love, others report abuse, at least finding that new Mercedes you chatted up turned out to be a clunker with bald tires. “You hear stories, sad stories,” says Vazquez. “And I thought there’s got to be a better way to meet quality people.”
ONCE A HAPPILY PAIRED COUPLE HITS THEIR STRIDE, VAZQUEZ FOLLOWS IN A COACHING CAPACITY, MAYBE ROMANCE TIPS OR POSITIVE REINFORCEMENTS, LEARNING ABOUT LOVE LANGUAGES OR HEALING FROM PAST FAILURES, RARE IN PROFESSIONAL MATCHMAKING SERVICES.
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out on a date with,” says the owner of Steel Magnolias Salon in Fort Myers and who has fused 25 years of styling and running a successful salon into the role of playing Cupid.
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