You would, for example, have to find a Blockbuster Video and then scour the racks for several exhausting minutes, picking out a film with a person who may have vastly different tastes than your own. In the era before Netflix & Chill entered the cultural consciousness as a practice, having a movie night in with someone meant there was work involved. I had never seen Titanic before, as it came out in theaters when I was 13 and not extremely interested. To be in a place where a couch must be shared (often due to a lack of furniture), or a place where the living room and bedroom are combined, can create a type of intimacy, even if it is just the intimacy of showing a person the places you think about them when they aren’t around. While not placing any expectations on physical activity, it did raise the stakes. The third date, though, was when an apartment or dorm room could be introduced. And then, for a second date, you would do something free but beautiful, like walk through the topiary garden downtown. There was a loose trajectory of dating then, in the late-teen college years: too poor to do much of anything extravagant, but still interested in getting to know a person, one might first go out for ice cream. Once, while on a third date and watching the end of Titanic on the couch, my date leaned over and prepared to say something.
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