Crosstalk combines romantic comedy with social commentary in a delightful way. In your barely tomorrow future, people are desperate for intimacy. Do you think, as a society, that we are too willing to give up our privacy in the face of a desire for connectedness? I think lots of people want the appearance of connectedness, not the actual thing, because real connection is often difficult and uncomfortable. Instead, they want the illusion of a relationship, a gauzy romance in which you not only share those "long walks on the beach" that everybody puts in their online dating profile, but the tender and sentimental thoughts that supposedly go along with them.... It's when people are seeking the illusion of intimacy that they get in trouble, just like my heroine does. And she's only able to get out of it by figuring out what real intimacy involves, with all the hard work and tough decisions and pain that go along with it.
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