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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss, and redemption.
I'm your host, Magna Chakrabarti.
Some crushes are brief, the guy at the gym, the girl on Twitter, your barista.
But others are epic and take on a life of their own.
Marina Shifrin writes about that kind of intense crush in her essay a Life plan for two followed by one.
It's read by Olivia Munn, who stars in the Predator, in theaters now.
Kevin was everything an overweight ten year old girl could ever hope for in a man.
His hair was the color of cheetos, and he was an incredible speller.
It was decided I was in love.
You live six houses down from me, he said, making my heart turn inside out.
My family had just moved to Highland Park, Illinois, from Skokie, Illinois, and I didn't know anyone.
Here was this magnificent boy who actually had taken the time to calculate how many houses stood between us.
I started to wonder if the glow from my wedding dress would make him look washed out.
Soon after, I began devising a plan in which Kevin and I would end up together forever.
As all my notebooks stated, months of morning strolls to the bus yielded a confession from Kevin.