Modern.
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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
Im your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
Caitlyn Dewey was a senior in college when she thought shed met the man of her dreams, and then she decided to spend some time with him in person.
Issa Rae, who recently starred in the movie little reads Caitlin Deweys essay even in real life, there were screens between us.
Curled up at the foot of my bed, my face inches from the laptop screen, I stared anxiously at the Google chat box.
Will is typing, the box told me helpfully.
I forced myself to read email while I waited for his message.
Then I refreshed my Twitter feed, scrolled through my blog posts, and began brushing my teeth.
Still, the box said.
Will is typing.
Don't you dare get hurt by this, I muttered around my toothpaste.
This was a stupid idea, and you knew that from the start.
But recognizing the stupidity of falling for someone on the Internet does not prevent you from doing it.
My friend Jeanette, a college radio dj, chats constantly with some music blogger she met on Tumblr.
My friend Tawan, who lives in Los Angeles, stays up until after three to talk to his London based girlfriend, and I had just driven nearly 1100 miles round trip to visit Will, a guy I met in October at a web journalism conference and got to know almost entirely on Skype.