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Blind Date ...the sudden realization!

You do your friend a favor by taking his cousin, whom you never met, on a blind date. You worry that she may be a real "dog", but then you meet her. A real beauty! Halfway through the night, just when you feel on top of the world, you come to a terrible realization - "I am the blind date!" Related Plots and Story Lines Used Category Date Title Comments Time • General Topics Trains and Railroads Where Shep Made Reference To This Subject Category Date Title Time • Article July 31, 1975 Jean Shepherd Meets the Press • Books 1987 Outlooks and Insights • Books 1976 Outlooks Through Literature • Books 1976 The Responsible Person • Live Shows July 30, 1975 Hartford News Luncheon • Movies December 23, 1976 The Phantom of the Open Hearth • Movies March 16, 1982 The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters • Radio February 17, 1968 Versions of Hell: Obscene Bath Mat, Blind Date • Radio May 6, 1975 Blind Date - Story Used in Text Book • Recording 1955 Into the Unknown With Jazz Music • Television September 5, 1962 Jean Shepherd American Humorist