Updated on February 25, 2021 at 8:31 pm
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Angel Arrington was newly separated from her longtime husband when she met “Josh” online.
Arrington, who lives in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, liked that “Josh” was in the military and said he had a home in West Virginia, too. But what she liked the most, she said, was the attention.
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“Everything he was saying — it was just so exciting,” said Arrington, who was new to online dating when she encountered him a few years ago. “I liked the attention that I was getting because I wasn't getting out anywhere. I wasn't going places. I don't go to bars to look for guys.”