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Lee Dalgetty

Edinburgh woman met fiancé on dating app seconds after landing in New York

An Edinburgh woman has told of her ‘unexpected’ whirlwind romance that started on a work trip to New York - with a notification from a dating app.

Lindz McLeod was travelling from the capital to New York City to attend a writers’ conference, having recently decided her love life was taking a back seat. Speaking to CNN, she said: “It was really interesting to uproot myself and go to a new continent entirely on my own, I was really looking forward to it, I saw this as a new adventure.”

Lindz, who was 33 at the time, said she had seen a string of ‘disappointing’ dates at home in Scotland. She recalled: “Maybe now is the time to really focus on me, and not worry about anything like that.

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