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Would You Consider Going on 100 Dates to Get Married? This Franciscan Grad Did

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One woman got to work, embarking on a 15-month dating journey that she says was blessed by God and that she hopes can inspire other Catholics who are discouraged by present difficulties of dating.

“If you had to go on 100 dates, and on the 100th one, you were going to meet your husband, would you do it?”

The question stopped Christie Sheridan in her tracks.

Thirty-four, Catholic and single at the time, Sheridan had been through the dating wringer. Six years of looking for lasting love in Washington, D.C., and Cincinnati had proven fruitless. She was disappointed with where her life had led her and had just moved back to Steubenville, Ohio, where she’d been an undergraduate at Franciscan University, looking for a fresh start and a break from dating.

Nonetheless, Sheridan still knew that she wanted to be married. In fact, the Christian single-life coach she was working with at the time, Angie Woods, told Sheridan she thought she had a “strong calling” to the married life.

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