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What do you call your nonromantic soul mate who also happens to be your roommate? A “PLP,” or platonic life partner, according to the screenwriter Ephi Stempler.

On this week’s Modern Love podcast, John Cameron Mitchell reads Mr. Stempler’s essay, “Platonic, Until Death Do Us Part,” in a live recording at the Provincetown Film Festival in Provincetown, Ma.