I got it from Craigslist

an ode to a website but also to being young(er)

When I first moved to New York City in 2008, I hardly knew anyone. I’d moved there for college but didn’t live in the dorms and worked weekends. Making friends with my classmates was hard. When I was lonely, I spent a lot of time on Craigslist looking through the Missed Connections section. I didn’t know it then, but it was the heyday for the website wh…