“I think that there’s a guy out there who’s a perfect fit for me, and I think I’m a perfect fit for him,” Lisa Catalano says. “We just have not connected yet”
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- Lisa Catalano, a 42-year old living in the Bay Area, created her own personal dating website and is spreading the word through a series of digital billboards
- It all started as somewhat of a joke when she started developing the application site back in June, but Catalano has since received around 1,800 responses as of early September
- Catalano tells PEOPLE “there’s a guy out there who’s a perfect fit for me, and I think I’m a perfect fit for him,” but says, “we just have not connected yet”
Lisa Catalano was growing tired of matches on dating apps that never seemed to go anywhere. So, she came up with a plan to reach eligible bachelors directly during their daily commute in the city she loves.
The 42-year-old San Francisco Bay area native launched a website for men to apply to date her, then plastered the site, MarryLisa.com, across digital billboards along the Highway 101 between Santa Clara and South San Francisco and on top of taxis driving through town, hoping the ads would catch the eye of the right guy.
“I never expected I would do something like this in my life,” Catalano admits to PEOPLE. “I’m almost in shock that I did it, really.”…