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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 Chacrabardi.

College freshmen are moving into dorms across the country,

and some of them may have an idea about what they want this next step in their lives to look like.

Adam Lundquist did, but what he didn't know was how it would all change in an instant.

Nico Tortorella from the TV Land Show Younger reads Adam's essay,

learning to embrace sexuality's grey areas.

It would be 88 days until I saw her again.

Sitting quietly on my bed as I packed my last belongings into two suitcases,

she began to cry.

This was the beginning of the end,

but all I knew was that I had a 6-10am flight, and it was already 1am.

We embraced once more, and then I watched as the fog engulfed her white sedan.

Eleven days later, I tried to rest on my bed in a humid college dorm room.

There was just enough space for a metal-framed bunk,

and a handful of excitement and anxiety.

I was wearing my first pair of boxer briefs when a new friend from downstairs came in and lay beside me.

He was slender and pale,

collarbones peaking from a blue t-shirt,

his sun-bleached hair brushing my face as he stroked my chest.

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