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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 Chakrabardi.

A lot of things can get in the way of love, distance, money issues, being in different places in life.

But this week's essayist Amanda Guepter writes about facing a very different kind of challenge.

Her piece is read by Logan Browning.

She stars in the show Dear White People, which is just released its third season on Netflix.

I stumbled across Justin's online dating profile while waiting for water to boil.

I had just gotten home from running errands, ATM, mailbox, grocery store, and was cooking dinner before sitting down to work.

It was just after 4am.

Message me if you want to talk about anything and everything until the Wii hours of the night, his profile said.

The phrase Wii Hours, as it turns out, means different things to different people.

For him, a software engineer with an eye for design who can whale on an electric guitar, the Wii Hours are 2am, maybe 3.

For me, it's a little more complicated.

I have a circadian rhythm disorder called delayed sleep phase syndrome.

It's not insomnia. I've never had trouble sleeping.

It's that my circadian clock tells me it's time for bed when the sun is rising and time to wake up as it's setting.

As these things go, I'm an extreme case of vampire, basically, offset from society's clock by approximately 8 hours.

My father is similarly chronic challenged, as was his mother. As a child, I struggled to live in the daytime world.

Some children feel they were born into the wrong body.

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