MIDDLETOWN PRESS -- Mar 6 -- Match claims to have 15 million members, 1.1 million of which pay. ~40 million US people a month are believed to have visited dating Web sites in 2004 (Jupiter). Says Elissa Gouge, of The Relationship Company, a match making business, "what I hear the most is that we just save people so much time. If they don’t want to spend hours and hours on the computer, then we’re a good alternative," Gouge said. "If a woman tells me she’s 140 pounds, she’s 140 pounds -- she’s not 300," Gouge said.
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