Images by Dan Thorson Photography.
Meet Jessica DeJong—PR and communications manager for a Denver company who works offsite out of her Sioux Falls home.
The single mom of two is a divorcee who is ready to look for love and a partner to share her life with.
“While I am not always brave, I do like to take a chance from time to time, and this must be one of those times,” she said in her e-mail responding to our Facebook post looking for participants.
Seeing that she works from her house, DeJong mentioned it has been difficult to meet someone as of late.
That being said, 605 decided to shake things up this year for Blinded by Love, which typically has readers vote for four guys and four ladies to go on a blind date and see what happens.
This year, DeJong is our one and only bachelorette, hoping to be wooed by three bachelors. The other kicker? Each bachelor is only given $50 to take her out.
Awkwardness, tears and fun ensued…
Meet William…
William Robertson is a busy man. Not only did he say he’s taking classes, but he has two jobs as well. The single dad moved to Sioux Falls from St. Louis to be closer to his children.
“Anything else you want to know? Oh yea, I hate cigarettes,” he said at the end of his e-mail responding to our post. We knew he was going to be a firecracker.
Robertson chose Chevys Fresh Mex for his Friday night date. When we met up with Robertson and DeJong to introduce the two, he had a bouquet of roses.
“She was a very beautiful woman,” Robertson said of first impressions during his phone interview following the date. “She’s very smart, very ambitious.”
“It was really sweet that he brought flowers—I don’t even remember the last time I got flowers,” DeJong recounted in her phone interview the morning after.
For DeJong, that’s where the sweet ended and the sour began….
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