Hey everyone, it's Anne, with a Valentine's Day edition of To the Best of Our Knowledge,

a look at the romantic tropes of modern love and how they're changing.

Do the old dreams of true love and happy ever after fit our new lives and new identities?

Today's episode, rewriting the romance script.

Keep listening.

Wisconsin Public Radio.

It's to the best of our knowledge.

I'm Anne Strange Champs.

And today we're going to talk about relationships and romance,

because it's that time of the year.

So let me introduce today's producer, Angelo Battista.

Hey, Angelo. Hi, happy Valentine's Day.

Thank you. Same to you. Hey, Angelo, why did you want to do this show about relationships?

Well, I have been in a relationship for about six years now. His name is Matt. We first met in college, but he got a job, and I still had school,

so we ended up doing the long-distance thing for about four years.

Wow, that's a long time.

Yeah, it was a lot of video calls and plane rides every month.

Good afternoon, and then I'd open to flight, 239, one service, two Fort Myers.

Four years of plane rides every month. I'm trying to calculate that.

I haven't done the math, but I think it's over 100 planes.

But now, you guys live together.

Yeah, in January of 2020, we finally closed the gap.

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