More of Your 13-Word Love Stories

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/style/13-word-love-stories.html

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Last fall, as part of our Modern Love at 13 project, we asked readers to submit haikulike versions of their love stories. We received, well, a few (ahem, north of 9,000) and shared some of our favorites then. Here is another batch of 13-word stories that caught our eye.

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I will never mistake your amazing gooeyness. I love you, mac ’n’ cheese.

Kornelia Gondek

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Don’t expect sex to be sexy at 60 if it’s not at 16.

Laura Docter

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Cuba. You were Danish. I complimented your Speedos. You said, “Thanks, they’re secondhand.”

Aliya Hashemi

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Has anyone ever been consistently so happy to see me as my dog?

Rebecca Short

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I talk in the mornings. She doesn’t. But we’ve made it this long.

Joseph Thomas

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He wrote me a poem, but I recognized it as Depeche Mode lyrics.

Liza Wyles

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We both like Mountain Dew and sticking our tongues out; the important stuff.

Imran Ullah

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Our friends keep on having babies. We moved to Europe. We sleep great.

Katherine Bayard

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Waiter, please set the table for three: my girlfriend, her anxiety and me.

Marek Piechowicz

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My kids moved out and he moved in; my first dog, named Wilbur.

Hilary Sigismondi

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45 years bliss. Then 13-word challenge. Now can’t agree. Love doomed. Thanks.

Barry Evans

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You had me at, “Don’t worry, I haven’t watched ‘Game of Thrones,’ either.”

Stephanie Ades

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Years from now, I hope the headline doesn’t become “Buddhism stole my boyfriend.”

Allison Poirot

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Never kiss and tell, especially when you are kissing an Army intelligence commander.

Jennifer Greenberg

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Post-kiss, it was never going to work. Maybe it was the Doritos.

Monika Gupta