Dating in 2026 for a divorced millennial, educated Black woman, is a lot like coming back to school after missing a month due to mono. Y’all remember mono? It took out scores of us in the 90s. (I haven’t heard much about it lately, though, weird.) Mono took a teen out for two weeks to a month. And, it wasn’t all fun and games. You were sick, sick. Not COVID sick, but close. That meant missing not only a lot of school, but also the social scene at the time.