In honor of Valentine's Day, we're taking on two love-centered topics today.

First we'll explore how a broken heart is more than just a figure of speech and the science

behind how heartbreak can affect you physically.

Later on, for this month's installment of The Writers Room, our series where we talk

to writers about their craft, we get romantic for Valentine's Day and talk about what it

takes to write a great love story.

All that and more after the break.

I'm Jen White.

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Support for NPR and the following message come from BetterHelp, offering online counseling.

BetterHelp Therapist Tessu Jo knows that lockdown has been hard on us as humans.

We as people are hardwired to connect with others, which is why this whole time is so difficult.

The connection that happens between people can be very powerful and how healing it can

be to have a healthy relationship with someone.

To get matched with a counselor within 48 hours and save 10% go to BetterHelp.com-1a.

Over this last year and a half, the world's been through a lot.

So on this season of the Storycore Podcast, we'll hear stories reminding us that even

when times are hard, we can still begin again.

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