Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
Andrew Rannells has been nominated for two Tony Awards.
He starred as Elijah on HBO's girls, and you can see him now in Black Monday on Showtime.
But in the early two thousands before any of that happened, he was just like a lot of 20 somethings, trying to make his career happen and dreaming about his perfect boyfriend.
Here's Andrew reading his own essay, the tallest man I ever loved.
My therapists believed that if you wanted to manifest something in your life, you needed to focus your energy on that thing.
I decided to apply this to my search for love, so I made a list only a 22 year old could make.
I wanted the man of my dreams to be one taller than me.
I'm six foot two, so it's a big ask.
Two, dark haired three.
Fit, kind, and funny.
But not too funny because that was my job.
Four social but not too social.
I didn't want to compete for attention.
Five creative later that day, I was on my way to the laundromat when I saw Todd.
We had acted together in a Westchester Broadway dinner theater production of Grease.
He was Danny Zuko.