On Love Island USA Season 7, Olandria Carthen was one half of the audience’s favorite love story — she just didn’t know it. While viewers instantly picked up on her romantic chemistry with Nic Vansteenberghe , she was slower to see the vision in real time. “Now that I've seen the clips, I get it,” she says. “You can just see him yearning from afar. You know what I mean?”

I do — and so does everyone else who watched Love Island . Carthen first kissed Vansteenberghe on Day 1 after the Islanders were asked to kiss someone they were attracted to. He returned the favor on Day 2 during a challenge where Islanders could kiss a contestant outside of their couple. (Carthen, who was blindfolded at the time, didn’t realize it was him.) As the season unfolded, Carthen and Vansteenberghe focus

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