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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.

Stories of Love, loss and redemption.

I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

Finding true love is hard.

Finding the perfect New York City apartment...

basically impossible.

Liz Moore got lucky with the apartment, but then a crush complicated things.

You know Julia Stiles from the Jason Bourne series and the 90s classic 10 Things I Hate About You.

She's starring in Riviera, a mini series that premiered in the US on Sundance Now.

Julia reads Liz Moore's essay, A Family Fairytale, Twice Told.

Mack and I met on Craigslist, but not in the usual way.

At the time I was 22, manically conducting the sputtering finale of a relationship I wasn't ready for,

and living in my first post-college apartment, the type of place one rarely finds in a lifetime, at least in New York.

Two floors at the top of a converted brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn,

half a block from Prospect Park and ridiculously inexpensive.

It came with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a winding staircase,

up which box springs did not fit, and a roof deck with a view of the Statue of Liberty.

It also came with three roommates, one of whom moved out a few months after I moved in.

We placed an ad and several dozen people answered it.

Mack was among them, and Mack, as he likes to tell it, sealed the deal.

I remember interviewing him.

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