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... Searching for a Mate: The Rise of the Internet as a Social Intermediary Abstract This paper explores how the efficiency of Internet search is changing the way Americans find romantic partners. ... 1985, and as many as 25% of heterosexual couples met through family in the 1940s. Social and geographic distance from the family of origin has...

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