It took Emily Regina Swarts six weeks after matching with Tyler Harris Swiggett on the dating app Hingejiliko, in early November 2021, to finally respond to the message he initially sent.
“I was just busy,” she said. “I got lost in the kerfuffle of the holidays.”
Ms. Swarts, 32, had recently moved back to New York from the Hawaiian island of Kauai after nearly one year, having escaped the pandemic there with friends, two of whom were colleagues from Google. All were working remotely.
When she finally replied to Mr. Swiggett, 33, in mid-December, Ms. Swarts was already back in Kauai again for six weeks for the winter.
He didn’t seem to mind the lag in communication or the fact that she would be away for six weeks. “I was very excited,” Mr. Swiggett said. “I very much remembered her.”
He suggested a coffee date. She agreed to have one after she returned in February.
But, he said, “in order to stay on her radar, I thought we should do a FaceTime date.”
“I was on my couch, she was on the beach,” Mr. Swiggett said of their Dec. 17 FaceTime meeting. “The chemistry was strong. It definitely warranted a second date.”
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