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Hey, everyone, you're listening to Code Switch, the show about race and identity from NPR.

I'm B.A. Parker.

Well, Valentine's Day is coming up very soon, which is probably as good a time as any to remind you all that Code Switch is a team of hopeless romantics.

Despite our sometimes cynical, frosty exteriors, we love, love. Some of us are obsessed with rom-coms. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not

because it's not because it's New Year's Eve. 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.

Some of us are romance novel aficionados. I have now read literally hundreds.

And that's partly because of my personality, but it's partly when you become a romance fan.

The genre is such that people really dive deep into it.

There's a real emotional reward to the reading.

Some of us are just out here in the world,

rooting for love, Lauren's souls the world over,

to find each other.

I was gonna ask you,

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