Strangers Share Their Love Stories With Author Trent Dalton

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In 2021, Trent Dalton sat down with a typewriter on a busy corner in Brisbane, Australia, and asked people to tell him their love stories.

Those tales are now collected in his first book, "Love Stories." It's over 300 pages and talks about the meaning of love, from strangers and Dalton alike.

As a nod to Valentine's Day, we revisit our conversation with Dalton about his book "Love Stories."

We discuss what it means to know love and talk and how to talk about it with strangers.

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0:00.0	Planet Money is there.
0:01.8	From California's most expensive fires ever...
0:04.7	It was my home home.
0:06.0	Yeah.
0:06.6	Grew up there.
0:07.7	It's ashes.
0:09.2	To the potentially largest deportation in U.S. history.
0:12.9	They're going to come to the businesses.
0:14.3	They're going to come to the restaurants.
0:15.7	They're going to come here.
0:17.2	Planet Money.
0:18.2	We go to the places at the center of the story.
0:20.8	The Planet Money podcast We go to the places at the center of the story,
0:23.4	the Planet Money podcast from NPR. Music Today we're talking about love.
0:47.3	I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
0:55.0	I hate it when you're not around and the fact that you didn't call.
0:59.0	But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
1:02.0	Not even close. Not even a little bit.
1:05.0	Not even at all.
1:06.0	No matter what, I still want to be here with you.
1:10.0	I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy. I don't want to be here with you.
1:17.3	I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.
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