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Listing 10 stories.

Ten years after leaving, a woman returns to Ireland and finds her longtime crush now married with children.

A depressed barista meets a famous actor at a party. They go back to her place, where he asks personal questions she's not willing to answer.

During WWII, an American paratrooper deployed in England misses his wife, but finds himself feeling closer to her after enjoying the company of another woman.

A man receives a call in the middle of the night and learns that his ex-girlfriend has committed suicide. He spirals into reflection about the woman and their relationship.

A man walks into a bar in Atlanta and becomes intrigued by a clique of regulars. After marrying one of their sisters, causing a rift between her and her brother, he realizes that the bar will not cure his loneliness.

In Japan, a man takes in his transgender childhood friend after she shows up at his apartment. He is driven by guilt that he abandoned her when they were younger, and he must now grapple with feelings of guilt and budding emotion.

In 1970s Massachusetts, a fourteen-year-old girl finds her first friend in a woman struggling with breast cancer and nearing the end of her life.

In a small town, an anxious middle-aged woman befriends a young cashier, who tries to teach her that not all romance ends in violence.

An instructor for the Navy helps one of his students — a young, lonely, and drunk man who already has the Purple Heart — and subsequently feels less bad about his own loneliness and insecurity.

A wealthy, elderly man grapples with how to raise his young grandson by himself and questions his natural instinct to be overly strict with the child.