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This week, the Modern Love podcast revisits the winning essay from its second college essay contest, “Even in Real Life, There Were Screens Between Us.”

Caitlin Dewey wrote the essay in 2011 when she was a senior at Syracuse University. In it, she chronicles a romance that flourishes online, but fizzles in real life.