If it weren’t for an online dating site, the Joplin area wouldn’t have gained a highly successful Chinese illustrator and fabric designer.

It all started when Cher Jiang, a native of Sichuan, China, decided to turn to an online dating site to learn English after finding that most language lessons were more costly than she cared to pay.

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