The Idea of Someone

"From your college partner, you will extract a love for the arts. The Idea of Someone will recite poetry to you, but not the saccharine, rhyming kind, the prose type that’s real. And, in the comfort of your double bed, in a glittering moment of intimacy, you will recite poems back to them, from memory. Finally, someone will understand you the way only an imaginary person can."

--The Idea of Someone, The New Yorker, by: Olivia de Recat