Date: April 22, 2025
Author: Graeme Simsion
Genre: romantic comedy, contemporary fiction
This was so much fun! This reads like Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory was looking for a wife and came up with the perfect questionnaire to weed out the imperfect respondents.
Of the applications one in particular shone brighter than the others. The only lady to meet all required criteria happened to love ballroom dancing. So, Dan set about to mastering this skill. Being as he is a career scientist he had access to a roll-around skeleton. Perfect for practicing complex dance moves.
Turns out one can memorize a dance choreography but one cannot memorize rhythm and thus the two were not meant to be.
Back to the questionnaires Dan went, recruiting a friend to help sort through the paperwork and find Dan a match. The friend threw criteria to the wind, and found Rosie instead. The friend had a hunch she was the one, but could Dan look the other way when Rosie was obviously not meeting any of his required criteria?
Rosie told Dan the story about not knowing whom her genetic father was and that she had compiled a list of possible suspects. Don decided to take this on as a personal challenge and threw himself into what they coined the ‘father project’ and began eliminating possible parents from the list, which happened to include every man from her mothers’ graduating class. It was quite entertaining the things Don and Rosie pulled off, in order to not so ethically get ahold of potential parent’s DNA.
Although incompatible as life partners they made great sleuthing partners. Until they didn’t. Emotions got involved and both parties shied away from the possibility of true love.
Which will win in the end? Logic? Or love?