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7th February 2016
01:23pm GMT

“The key to this con is that it's a long one — you have to lay the groundwork early in order to really have followers believe you nabbed a doting boyfriend in time for the 14th” she states. Posting nondescript would-be-date shots on her social medias, Smothers convinced everyone she had finally bagged a man. She enlisted the help of strangers, unbeknownst to them it would seem. Taking a sneaky shot on the subway she wrote: “The key to pulling off this move is to be sneaky with your camera and to be in a place with lots of people. What better place than a crowded subway car during rush hour? I simply placed my hand next to a man's on the rail, drew my phone in close, and snapped a pic. Boom, perfection".
Smothers told The Huffington Post that she "honestly just wanted to see if something like this would work." It did though the writer now fears she’s entered into a girl-who-cried-boyfriend enigma. "Next time I'm actually in a relationship, NO ONE WILL BELIEVE ME" she concluded. And none for Gretchen Wieners.?love on the L train? A photo posted by hannah (@hannahsmo) on
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