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Cat Person, a short story about dating by American writer Kristen Roupenian, went viral when it was released in 2017. What made it such a huge success? Kristen explains the plot and why she thinks it resonated with so many people:

"It felt as though there was a collective sense of seeing old things in a new way. Things that had been acceptable suddenly didn't feel acceptable anymore... It was a hunger for a certain kind of conversation that the story facilitated."

Image: Kristen Roupenian Credit: Elisa Roupenian Toha