Felice Neal was in the checkout line at Whole Foods when she dropped her sweet potato. A handsome customer behind her said, “I think this is yours.” Felice was smitten. Felice believes this meet-cute was fate — and it opened her up to new ways of looking for love in a city full of millions of strangers. Then, Jessica Strange shares her story about losing her husband, and selling the house they had lived in with their children. These days, she looks at photos of their old home on Zillow. Even though the rooms look different now, she finds solace in them. “I picture us in these spaces loving, living, fighting, making up, making out, raising our babies,” she wrote in her Tiny Love Story.
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Anna Martin: From the New York Times,
this is Modern Love.
I'm Anna Martin, and I have a confession.
Every time I get on a plane
I'm secretly praying that a hot person sits next to me.
It doesn't matter if I'm single or in a relationship.
I still want a hottie next to me.
I want to make flirty conversation
as we float through the clouds.
I want to make jokes about the bad food and the bad wine
and cheers it in little plastic cups.
I want to fall asleep and wake up with my head
just gently resting on their shoulder.
In the 28 years of my life,
this has never happened.
But I haven't stopped hoping.
I still have the fantasy
that I'll meet someone that way someday.
Today's essay is about a meet cute