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Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey bring explosive

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chemistry to Fellow Travelers, a new Showtime

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original limited series from the writer of

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Philadelphia. Bomer and Bailey play two political

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staffers who fall in love at the

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height of the lavender scare of the

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1950s. Their fiery and forbidden affair

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intensifies through the decades, despite the

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constant threat of being exposed and

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losing everything, including each other. The

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Can't Miss limited series also stars

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Jelani Alladin, Noah J. Ricketts, and

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Alison Williams. New episodes streaming now

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with the Paramount Plus with Showtime plan.

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When Sonia Falk was 26, she

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fell for a much older man

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named Colin, before she even

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met him. It

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started when Sonia rented a room in Colin's

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house in London while he was away teaching

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English literature in the U.S. The

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first thing Sonia saw when she walked into his

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home was... He

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had copies of as well. Sonia

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had grown up in South Africa. Then,

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after getting her degree in psychology, she'd

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spent the last few years traveling and

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staying in hostels. She got the

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sense that Colin was a traveler too, from the art

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he collected. Sonia wanted

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to meet the man whose house she felt

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so at home in. And then, finally,

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it happened. One

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day, when Sonia and a friend were on their way

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out of the house... We met Colin on the stairs.

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He had these really bright,

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quick eyes with his quick eye movements.

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was very energetic and springy on

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his feet. And after

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we walked away from each other,

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I said to my friend, I

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find that man so attractive. Colin

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noticed Sonia too. And

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even though he was heading back to America, he

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came up with a way to stay in touch.

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When we had spoken, I

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told him that I write poetry and he'd invited

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me to send him my poems. And

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that was a big moment for me because I

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was very young and I'd never

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ever shown anybody my poems

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really. And he was this professor of English literature.

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He was a published poet. And

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he then said, coming back from

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America, would you

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like to have dinner? And then we can

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discuss your poems. And

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just before the dinner, he posted me

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this brown envelope returning my poems

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to me on which he had

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written comments. This is like romance

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novel stuff. OK, sorry, keep going. Yeah.

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And that dinner happened

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on the 3rd of August. And

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we then named that

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date as our anniversary date. It

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was just obvious that both

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of us were just feeling really affected

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by each other. What did he

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say about your poems? He

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was really critical of my poems. He

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ripped them to shreds. Yeah, that was

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pretty devastating. From

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the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin. This

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is Modern Love. When

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Colin ripped apart Sonya's poetry, it

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didn't turn her off. She

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liked his directness and his authenticity

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because that's the kind of person she was and

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the kind of person she wanted to be with. The

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connection between the two of them was so

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magnetic that when Sonya found out that Colin

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was 34 years older than her, it

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didn't stop the two of them from building

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a genuinely happy life. together. Sonya

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and Colin never had a conventional

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love story,