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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.

You might love Valentine's Day, or like me, sometimes you might want to resist

the Valentine's Day card and flower industrial complex.

Well, however you feel about this day, we wanted to drop into your feeds and say thank you

for listening to this podcast about love in all its forms.

And we wanted to leave you a Valentine made up of stories submitted to the Modern Love column

by readers from around the world.

These stories are drawn from the Tiny Love Stories project, which Modern Love debuted in 2018,

where readers tell a love story in no more than 100 words.

So here are some of our favorites read by the people who wrote them.

Happy Valentine's Day.

We met in Munich during October Fest.

I had seen him the day I arrived at Hansen Stranger exiting the train station.

That night we matched on a dating app but didn't connect.

The next day, in a mass of beer drinkers dressed in traditional German clothes,

I spotted him above the crowd, giving a toast to top of bench.

We were wearing identical later hosem.

I pointed out him slightly drunk and said,

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