100 Emails, 20 Dates An SF girl's systematic quest to end her singlehood

“I like you like more than friends”

As someone who seems to specialize in unrequited love, I have to say that this is pretty much my dream story:

It took my friend Tracy cornering E in the bathroom at a massive Halloween party for anything to actually begin. "You know Cord basically loves you, right?" Tracy asked. "He's just a total pussy." And I was, because when Tracy told me what she'd done, the most I could muster when I saw E was, "I, uh, like you like more than friends," and that I could only do because I'd had two forties. It felt like my heart grew to twice its size when she responded, "I'm kind of obsessed with you."

Read the whole piece, written by Cord Jefferson, over at The Awl. You'll be glad you did.