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From The New York Times and WBUR Boston,

this is a bonus episode of Modern Love.

I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

A couple of weeks ago on the podcast, actor Taisa Farmiga,

read Hannah Celenger's story, Friends Without Benefits.

Here's a little refresher.

Years later, he would confess to having loved me all along.

But while I stood waiting for him to happen to me,

he was always looking for the next best thing.

I apparently made too good of a friend for him to justify anything more significant.

Who was I anyway? A friend? A roommate? A drunken neighbor with nowhere to sleep?

Did even I know who I was?

This story with all that waiting, I know what it's like.

And all those questions, why am I doing this?

What does it say about me that I'm imposing such a bittersweet suffering on myself?

And will I ever be able to move forward?

Well, I'm not the only one who's wrestled with those demons.

We asked you for your stories about waiting for love and you answered from all over the world.

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