For our annual Love Stories series about love in all its forms, Vogue writer EmmaSpecter reflects on one love story that trailed off after the first chapter.
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Jane did respond, and promptly, too, but she didn’t seem particularly interested. I texted my friends a screenshot of the conversation, adding “that’s a wrap,” put my phone away, and rode in tipsy silence over the Manhattan Bridge. When she messaged me a few weeks later to ask for my address because she had a book she wanted to send me, I assumed it was something she wanted me to review for work.by Trisha Low, a scrawled-on business card, and a ripped-open brown mailer.
I didn’t get through much of the book in my first few weeks of seeing Jane. I’ve never been particularly good at focusing when I’m dating someone new and every time I sat down to read Low’s poignant exploration of identity and utopia, I got distracted. I’d replay our first kiss, peel at my sunburn from our trip to Rockaway Beach, stare at my phone and wonder when I’d hear from her next .Then Jane took a solo trip to Berlin, and I had a lot more time to read.
Soon after she came back, I went to my best friends’ house for dinner. The two of them had been dating for three years, and their Bed-Stuy apartment was a testament to their commitment: shoes commingling by the door, photos on the fridge from trips they’d taken, toys for their highly anxious Labradoodle covering every available surface.
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