Maya and Alex have been portable for four years. They met in a hostel in Hanoi. She lives in Chicago, he lives between London and Berlin. They have no plans to cohabitate. Their romance exists in WhatsApp voice memos, a shared Google Doc of future travel itineraries, and the three times a year they choose a city—Tokyo, Mexico City, Cape Town—to live together for ten days. Each reunion is a sequel. They don’t call it “dating.” They call it “carrying each other.”
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