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Whether you celebrate Valentine’s Day or view it as a commercial scheme to sell cards and candy, we wanted to use this day as an opportunity to share what love means to more than a dozen contributors to our Tiny Love Stories project, which the Modern Love team launched in October, 2018.

These deeply felt narratives — none more than 100 words long — are read by the people who wrote them.