Love on the Brain

by Ali Hazelwood

A girl with a septum piercing and a blue ombré wouldn’t conform to his ideals of what pretty ladies should look like,

“There is no other neuroscientist I’d want to do this project with. Not a single one.”

“I’ve tried to reason with them. I’ve yelled. I’ve explained myself calmly. I’ve tried . . . a lot of things, believe me.” He sighs. “Eventually I had to accept what my therapist always said: all you can change is your own reaction to events.”