Adventures of love, dating

As I read Check the Stats portion of Anne Valdespino’s article (“Dating Games People Play,” Dec. 5), I couldn’t help but think of Christopher Marlowe’s poem, “Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight”:

It lies not in our power to love or hate,

For will in us is overruled by fate.

When two are stripped, long ere the course begin,

We wish that one should lose, the other win;

And one especially do we affect

Of two gold ingots, like in each respect.

The reason no man knows, let it suffice,

What we behold is censured by our eyes.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight;

Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?

Herb Rosenkrantz

Calabasas