New York-based photographer and active duty service member Christopher Janaro captured the demise of his long distance relationship in a striking photo essay. The photos show his three-year relationship with his former fiancée and you can actually feel how alone they both must be in the pictures. Heartbreaking stuff. 

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Now nearing the end of his four-year contract with the United States Navy, he constructs a fictional narrative that runs parallel to the past he shared with this woman, confronting the invisible threads of loneliness and isolation that often permeate the daily lives of those serving in the military.

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Laura Beck is a Los Angeles-based TV writer and frequent contributor to Cosmopolitan.com — her work has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Jezebel, and the Village Voice.