You are listening to a Clarks Old magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker. Welcome to issue

213 for June 2024. Our second story of the month is titled Our Chat Bbots said, I love you. Shall we meet?

Is by Caroline M. Yolkam.

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Caroline M. Yoakum is a three-time Hugo and six-time Nebula Award finalist. Her

short stories have been translated into several languages and reprinted in

multiple best-of anthologies including four times in best American science fiction

and fantasy. Yolcombe's short story collection Seven Wonders of a once in future world and other stories, and the

print chapbook of her novel at The Archronology of Love, are available from Fairwood Press.

Now, if you like what you hear, you can always go back to five stages of grief after the alien invasion.

So my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Here at one two three a I love you we take all the guess work out of dating with

personalized chatbots trained on social media and chat histories.

We put you in conversation with hundreds of potential matches, and

you never have to say a thing.

Sandra is watching the latest episode of Forged Scandal on the auction block

when she got the notification that her one-two-a-I- Love You app had found a match.

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