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Dear Kelly,

If you find out you don’t like a person’s voice on the first date, does it make sense to go on more dates with them? Can a person ever change their mind about another person’s voice?

From,

Louise

As I’m sure you know, Louise, this is one of the great dangers of app-based dating. You fall in love with a person’s profile and the information you’ve gleaned via Google-based stalking — they have a cute dog, and an interesting job! they dress well! they don’t tweet very often! — and you meet them and find that their speaking voice, to you, sounds exactly like the SCREEEEEEECH that happens when a large truck comes to an abrupt stop. Damn.

No matter how hot they are, how polite they are, how funny they are — a voice that doesn’t agree with your voice preferences can be an immediate dealbreaker. I get it. A friend of mine once said she thought Tinder, et. al, should encourage users to upload an audio clip of themselves counting to ten, to give potential daters a better sense of whether they’d be attracted in reality. It’s an incredible idea and I can’t believe no company has taken her up on it. (If a company reads this and decides to take her up on it please contact me for her contact information; reading this is a legal agreement that you will give her 50% of the profits.) (And you have to give me 20%.) (Sorry, but you agreed.)