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The Love Series Podcast - Episode 1: "Mirror, mirror on the wall..."


Nightmare scenario: have you ever met someone from online to find out that they look... NOTHING like the pictures? Host Valerio Esposito talks us through the scary world of millennial dating: from first-date horror stories to the most common myths on conventional attractiveness and dating "out of your league".

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