Falling In Love, By The Book
May 18, 2021
4 minutes
By Karla Marie-Rose Derus
ADAPTED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES
ILLUSTRATION BY
Brian Rea
I WAS ALWAYS A READER. As a kid, I walked to the library several times a week and stayed up late reading with a torch. I checked out so many books and returned them so quickly the librarian once snapped, “Don’t take home so many books if you’re not going to read them all.”
“But I did read them all,” I said back.
I did my undergraduate degree in English and went on to get a master’s in literature. When I created my online dating profile, I made my screen name
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