I met Tom* on Bumble in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. We were both travelling and I was initially attracted to his Aussie charm, his skater boy fashion sense, and the hair he wore in a topknot.
Even the food caught in his braces was endearing. We shared interests: creative writing, dark tourism, alien conspiracies… He had me at ‘So, do you ever YouTube rollercoaster disasters?’ We met the next day to visit an abandoned water park.