The One Where a Finance Bro Paid Me to Run His Tinder Account for (and While Pretending to Be) Him

Nandini Balial
ZORA
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12 min readJul 22, 2022

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Picture this: Harlem, New York City, 2013. An unemployed New York University graduate, with a decent résumé of internships and jobs, is unable to find full-time work, struggles to pay for rent and her MetroCard and therapy and meds, lives off $40 worth of groceries every fortnight, and in desperation, turns to Task Rabbit…

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