Within a few weeks, the app connected Ms. Scalesse with Sheldon Thien Nguyen, 31, a pharmacist living in New Brunswick, N.J., which was at least an hour’s drive from where she lived. “Bri didn’t realize that Manhattan was something like two or three miles wide, so she had her radius set really huge,” Mr. Nguyen said. “It’s the reason we met,” Ms. Scalesse said. Their first date was at a Totto Ramen in Midtown Manhattan on the morning of Feb. 17, 2019; Ms. Scalesse fretted about what to wear. “We had talked about being in fashion, so we both wanted to show up with the coolest fits,” said Ms. Scalesse, 28, a model and a disability advocate.

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Persons: Sophia Scalesse, Scalesse, Sheldon Thien Nguyen, “ Bri, Mr, Nguyen, “, ” Ms, ” Locations: Manhattan, Norwich, Conn, New Brunswick, N.J, Midtown Manhattan