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SALT LAKE CITY — Dozens of couples are finding love through Tinder, the online dating app. Tinder, available for free on smartphones, allows users to set age and distance preferences to find their one and only. The app works by allowing users to swipe left or right, to ‘like' or reject a picture. Shallow, but it works. Dan Goaslind and Ashley Duffin are the most recent success story of the dating app.
Romance winged its way into the lives of Mr. Daniel Mark Goaslind, and Miss Ashley Marie Duffin one day in the spring of 2013. Mr. Goaslind, 26, and Miss Duffin, 24, connected on Tinder and decided to put their match to the test by meeting at Paradise Bakery in Lehi. And a paradise it was, as each soon discovered the match was meant to be.
Mr. Goaslind is ecstatic to announce his engagement to the beautiful Miss Ashley Marie Duffin, The couple will wed in the LDS Salt Lake Temple in May of 2014.
Miss Duffin, the daughter of Rex and Susan Duffin, was raised in Mesa, Arizona. She attends Utah Valley University, where she is studying Family Studies. Ashley served an LDS mission in the Australia Sydney Mission, returning home in October 2011.
Mr. Goaslind, son of Mark and Sherrie Goaslind, was raised in West Jordan. He graduated from the University of Utah in political science and currently attends Creighton Law School in Omaha, Nebraska. Daniel served a mission in the Canada Toronto East Mission, and returned home September 2006. The couple will reside in Omaha, Nebraska.
Daniel's grandfather, Jack H Goaslind (now deceased), served as an LDS mission president in the Arizona Tempe Mission where he was the mission president to Ashley's father and also performed the wedding ceremony of Ashley's parents in the Salt Lake Temple. Grandpa is still looking out for us; a match made in heaven.
Editor's note: Our congratulations to the happy couple.
