WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL -- Apr 20 -- Laura Schaefer, 25, writes a column about sex for online dating service Match.com and expanded her sources to personal ads dating as far back as 1737. She'll be talking about her book next Tuesday live on "Good Morning, America." It's also been written up in the May issue of Playboy. Some of her favorites..."A lady, young, pretty, bright and poor, desires to make the acquaintance of a man with the opposite qualities with a view to a happy marriage." (1894)..."Bachelor with 40 acres of excellent land would like to make acquaintance of lady with tractor; matrimony in mind. Please send picture of tractor." (1957)...Schaefer is a bartender at Middleton's Imperial Garden, and is finishing her second book, "HappilyEverAfter.com," a novel about online dating.
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