May 28, 2008 (Fresh Air from WHYY) — When Bob Morris' widowed father decided to start dating again -- at the age of 80 -- guess who found himself sorting through the personals? In Assisted Loving, Morris chronicles the search for Dad's new Ms. Right -- and his own misadventures in the romantic jungle that is Manhattan's gay ghetto.
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Dating with Dad: A Reluctant Son's 'Assisted Loving'
May 28, 2008 (Fresh Air from WHYY) — When Bob Morris' widowed father decided to start dating again -- at the age of 80 -- guess who found himself sorting through the personals? In Assisted Loving, Morris chronicles the search for Dad's new Ms. Right -- and his own misadventures in the romantic jungle that is Manhattan's gay ghetto.When Bob Morris' widowed father decided to start dating again — at the age of 80 — guess who found himself sorting through the personals?
Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad is Morris' memoir of the effort to find Dad a Ms. Right — and a chronicle of Morris' own simultaneous misadventures in the romantic jungle that is Manhattan's gay ghetto.
A contributor to the Styles section of The New York Times, Morris has also written for The New York Times Magazine and New Yorker, and contributed to All Things Considered.
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