This is the first in a series of short stories that appeared in the Wired Magazine January 2018 issue on work. They are paywalled.
Real Girls starts with a protagonist with a newly minted degree in English, a lot of debt, and no direction. Good recipe for desperation. His girlfriend is ready to give up on him. Thus he ends up with a gig as a "robot" girlfriend for someone 8 hours away. The girlfriend is supposed to be a chatbot, but they aren't good enough at it so the company hires text actors. He's making some money, and his girlfriend is getting interested again--but he can't quite bear things staying just the same.
It's a nice story but not too intense or engaging. The ending is kind of not motivated by the rest of the story.
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