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Blind date: Stop! In the name of love

Can these daters recover from an encounter with a traffic cop?

OLIVIA KOZIOL: 21 / student, dancer

LAST THING SHE READ: As You Wish, Cary Elwes’s tell-all about the making of The Princess Bride

WHO PLAYS HER IN THE MOVIE: Jennifer Grey in the 1980s

RYAN PEPI: 21 / biochemist, musician, former child actor

LAST THING HE READ: Deal, Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann’s autobiography

HIS HOBBIES: Singing, songwriting, playing guitar

7:15 P.M. TEATRO, THEATRE DISTRICT

> THE DATE MUST GO ON

Olivia: I’ve been going to school in Boston for three years now, and realized that I don’t know many people from the area.

Ryan: I was applying to a ton of jobs when I stumbled across the write-up for an acquaintance’s date. I figured why not apply to something less job-oriented.

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Olivia: My cousin told me my outfit would never work and began re-dressing me. I just kind of went with what she wanted.

Ryan: She was late because her friend was in the middle of getting a ticket from a police officer for going down some road that was restricted. Eventually her friend told her to just go to the date.

Olivia: I was late because my ride got pulled over on our drive into Boston. I felt horrible about that!

Ryan: My trip in was considerably less interesting.

> SO ARRESTING

Olivia: Ryan was the only person in the room who was around my age and sitting on his own, so I figured this had to be him.

Ryan: I saw the hostess walk over with her. She was cute, dressed nicely, and smiling.

Olivia: He has very nice eyes. I tend to notice eyes before anything else.

Ryan: I’d definitely recommend Teatro to anyone who has a Ben Franklin to burn.

Olivia: I ordered gnocchi, which were amazing. It was a very nice place for a first date.

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Ryan: She was pretty ambitious. She even started a swing dancing club at Boston College. She’s planning on heading to New York to pursue a dancing career.

Olivia: He is a dedicated musician and I am a huge theater nerd, so we had plenty to talk about in the creative category.

Ryan: She told me about a time when she had 20 cats, which at face value sounds like a deal breaker, but the story actually involved three female cats (two of them misidentified as males), 17 kittens, and a lemonade stand.

> UNCHAIN MY HEART

Olivia: At one point I made a joke about how we had talked about pretty much every topic, to which he responded, “Except death.” So naturally we ended up talking about our future funerals, which was not as weird as it sounds.

Ryan: There was a point where conversation stopped — a sign there isn’t chemistry.

Olivia: I don’t think Ryan and I really searched for chemistry. Instead, we chose to get to know each other as people first.

Ryan: Toward the end I was getting uncomfortable because I was going to be late for my train, which had nothing to do with her.

Olivia: I had work the next day, so we didn’t do anything other than say our goodbyes.

Ryan: We hugged and went separate ways.

> SECOND DATE?

Olivia: I’m not sure if we will or not, but I would enjoy it.

Ryan: I’d definitely be friends, but my mind is on getting a job in biochemistry.

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> POST-MORTEM

Olivia / B+

Ryan / B+

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