At p.m., near the front desk, three men known as Pack Rat, Rob Fox, and Zen Wolph are scratching one another’s backs—grooming one another, like macaques in a zoo. a polar bear.“In normal society,” Dickinson says, “two people who hardly know each other do not walk up and scratch each other’s backs. Last year, Johnson, who has brought the ashes of his dead cat to the Fur Fest, persuaded Dickinson to attend another furry convention in Memphis, and that’s what did it.“It’s a new way of looking at the world,” Dickinson says.
The AARP partnership with How About We is part of the broader evolution under way among dating websites to focus more on the elusive ingredient that the online environment has never been able to provide: a reality check.
