I first met Linda over Zoom as a potential roommate through Airbnb. It was August 2016, and I had just driven my red Honda Fit from Columbus, Georgia to my parents’ house in Cedar City, Utah.
A few months earlier, while teaching a summer course at NYU, I had made the decision to leave academia and move to Los Angeles to become a full-time writer.
The Zoom went well, and I moved into Linda’s apartment on Halloween a few months later. I never left. We didn’t start dating until late December, but long before then I grew to care about her as a close friend.
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