New York : Four years ago, in October 2021, Rama Duwaji posted a carousel of pictures to her Instagram. “Archives from this summer,” she wrote. “Feeling ready to girlboss my way back into making/posting more art after being burnt out for what feels like forever.”

Among the selection was a film snap of a man on a Coney Island boardwalk holding a toy frog and wearing a Bernie Sanders bag. She had just met him on the dating app, Hinge. Four years later, she would join him on stage as he became mayor of New York City , hailing her in his acceptance speech as “hayati” – Arabic for “my life”.

As dating app stories go, it is surely among the more extraordinary. Whether Zohran Mamdani declared his intentions to run for mayor on his Hinge profile back in 2021 is a matter for internet sleuths.

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