Woman buys ad seeking man from her flight

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Many fliers want to escape as quickly as possible from the people they’re forced to travel with. This is especially true of my seatmates, who never join my impromptu Justin Bieber sing-alongs. I’m feeling too jet-lagged to write a proper transition, so let’s cut straight to the story of Linda Patterson, a bookkeeper from Fort Erie, Ontario, who took out a $600 ad in the Toronto Star in the hope of finding a man she encountered on a recent flight home from Winnipeg.

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