2020-02-20
15 分钟What if you had to pretend your partner was a stranger for a day? Would you fall in love again? Nick Kroll ("Olympic Dreams") reads Tim Kreider's essay.
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What if you had to pretend your partner was a stranger for a day?
If today were day one of your relationship, how would you act?
How would they respond?
Would you fall in love again?
Tim Kreider and his girlfriend tried to find out.
He writes about their experiment in his essay just for tonight, pretend you dont know me.
His essay is read by actor and comedian Nick Kroll.
He stars in the film Olympic Dreams, in select theaters now.
Like many couples, my girlfriend and I agree that Valentines Day is a commercial holiday.
Last year, neither of us wanted to do anything traditionally romantic, like go out for a fancy dinner.
We wanted instead to do something scandalous.
We had a wish list of activities we'd been gradually checking off and talked over a few possibilities.
We settled on one of my suggestions.
We would go to a bar that neither of us frequented, pretend to be strangers, and I would try to pick her up.
We had been dating for eight months, long enough to get comfortable with each other.