And I actually do eat this stuff. A veteran of several singles nights, David Smith has an edge on the competition. Like others in the store tonight, the lifelong Philadelphia resident says he's met a few people but has yet to make that love connection. I like rock climbing, motorcycles, Ritz movies. It's a gray city.
People retreat here a bit.
An exception, he says, is South Philadelphia, a place known more for cheesesteaks than Belletoile Brie. The nicest girls I've met are from South Philly. Smith eventually gets around to meeting Jennifer Zupko - but then again, so do most of the single guys. Zupko's mission is more business than pleasure, since she recently began a relationship. So when the lines come, they are more amusing than depressing.