Julia Borcherts is cofounder of Nerds at Heart.
“We could call ourselves Nerds at Heart and throw a party called Dating for Nerds,” she said. I’d had event-planning experience as a Reading Under the Influence cohost, so I started devising activities to ratchet down the “nerves” and “potential rejection” quotients. We chose Guthries Tavern in Lakeview because they had an amazing wall of board games and an enclosed back porch that they were willing to loan us for the night.
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It was hot as hell that first night in July. As we arranged the tables into groupings of eight, laid out board games and set up our shrine of geeky prizes, we wondered, “Will anyone actually show up?”
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