Revisiting Fairy Tales

Love Letters

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Do you love meet-cutes? Then tune in to this episode – because Meredith would quite literally not exist without the adorable, rom-com love stories in it. Her family is FULL of meet cutes... and in this episode from Season 2 of Love Letters, you’ll get the details. We’re re-running this classic – updated with some new thoughts – to prepare you for next week’s story, which is about how the best love stories can change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, it's Meredith. You kind of get a bonus episode today. Sort of. Let me start with the biggest piece of news. We are now collecting stories for the next season of love letters.
0:21.6	I am so excited about that. So please email us your story to get on the podcast. You might say
0:28.0	Meredith, what are you looking for? What makes a good love letter story? Well, you might tell us
0:32.7	about a relationship moment that was extra happy or extra sad. Those tend to make great episodes. You may tell us how you
0:40.6	answered a question about your relationship life or about a question you've never been able to
0:45.4	answer. Like, will I ever be able to meet someone if I live in a town with a population of 800
0:50.2	people, all of whom I went to high school with. That's an excellent question. Some of our best
0:56.3	stories are about what happened after a breakup, like how you rose like a phoenix and made
1:01.0	yourself amazing, or how you still hope to do that, but are not quite amazing yet. I will tell you
1:06.4	I happen to love stories about technology. If you've abandoned technology or all social media and it made
1:12.4	you happier in love, I want to know. Or maybe you went the other way and now have an AI boyfriend.
1:18.4	Tell us about him. I also adore stories that involve problem solving in general. Like maybe you
1:23.6	couldn't decide whether to get back together with someone who wronged you. And then you did and learned it could be okay. Or maybe you tried to decide whether to be non-monogamous.
1:32.5	And something happened to help you decide whether that was a good idea.
1:36.3	Anyway, you know what I like. You listen. To submit your story for the next season of the podcast,
1:41.0	email love letters at boston.com with your tale. Put my story in the subject line.
1:47.8	Tell us the best way to reach you. That's love letters at boston.com. And please put my story in the
1:54.7	subject line. Now for a bonus episode, or more accurately, a rewind. I'm going to replay a season two episode
2:03.2	today. It's a primer for next week's new episode. For some of you, this is going to be brand new.
2:09.5	For others, you might remember that season two featured a series of stories about how to meet
2:14.5	someone. It was very public servicey for the single people. This particular
2:19.5	episode, which we called Beware the Fairy Tales, was very special to me for reasons you'll be
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