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There's Still No Modern Romance, Even for Subway Dreamgirl

by Christine Whitney on July 29, 2008 at 07:02 PM



Sigh. Remember Patrick Moberg, that Vimeo employee from Brooklyn who saw the "girl of his dreams" (yeah, he really said it) on the subway and waged an online campaign to find her. www.nygirlofmydreams was a sort of grand-scale "missed connections," wherein Pat drew a nice picture of the girl and put out an appeal to his New York neighbors to help him find her.

People love that sort of stuff, it's like 'Desperately Seeking Susan' for the Internet era. And so New Yorkers helped Patrick hurtle along towards a doomed romance, locating the mystery girl within 48 hours.

Dreamgirl was actually one Camille Hayton, a Blackbook intern from Australia. She dated Moberg for two months in the wake of great media fanfare, and then, it was over.

In a recent interview, Hayton told the The Sunday Telegraph about the breakup and about her cameos in 'As the World Turns' and the 'Sex and the City' movie.

"...We dated for a while but now we're just friends," said Hayton, "It's really nice that people embraced the story. It is part of my life now." Moberg, however, refused to comment, telling Reuters via e-mail "We've decided not to do any more press." Hmmm...miscommunication, kiddos? [Source: Reuters]

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