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Tiny Love Stories: 'Who Would Believe That Nonsense?'
The Times column collects reader-submitted romances of no more than one hundred words each; BBN notes the heart has been given a word count.
On air: Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock on BBN NewsroomPublished
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- First reported by The New York Times: “Tiny Love Stories: ‘Who Would Believe That Nonsense?’”.
- Covered on BBN on Monday, October 19, 2026, at 1:36 PM ET on BBN Newsroom, by Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock.
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- The New York TimesTiny Love Stories: ‘Who Would Believe That Nonsense?’
What BBN said about it
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe New York Times published a new batch of Tiny Love Stories, and I must tell you the situation is severe.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's reader-submitted romance, Hank, and each story has to come in at one hundred words or fewer.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOne hundred words. That is the legal ceiling on the human heart, and nobody in government has commented.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's a column, not a law. People like short and sweet.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSomewhere a man had a hundred and four words of feeling, and an editor made him cut four. Four words he will never get back.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe title is 'Who Would Believe That Nonsense?' It's meant to be charming. People eat this stuff up.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy whole love story fits in four words.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorCut it to three.
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