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Matchmakers’ Insider Secrets
Internet dating not doing the trick? Try a professional matchmaker.
by Marnie Hanel
When I arrive in the lobby of her building on the Upper East Side, she’s running a bit late. So while I wait, I check out the woman Spindel is interviewing before me. She is gorgeous in a Ralph Lauren way, with olive skin and wavy brown hair. (It’s quite possible she arrived on horseback.)
Although Spindel holds open calls in various cities to audition prospective girls for her “inventory,” the pool from which she matches her clients, this is a private appointment. Spindel says she has more than 8,000 women in her data bank, but “remembers the good ones.”
She’ll remember this one. And although I arrived suspicious of Spindel’s system, I look at Ralph Lauren and wonder.
When I sit down, Spindel goes straight to the interrogation. “What religion are you? What do you see when you look in the mirror? What do you do on the weekends?”
She nods in approval at most of my answers, although at one point, after I reveal I won a scholarship to college, she says, “Are you some kind of brainiac?” From her tone, you’d think she was asking if I had ringworm.
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