2017-01-12
20 分钟Modern.
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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss, and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
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Every year, my far flung family gathers for Christmas at my parents house in eastern Idaho, along the Snake river, where the snow falls with thick, dreamy, often relentless abandon.
Last year it had been falling for almost a week.
The day before Christmas Eve, as flakes continued to drift down and the afternoon light dimmed, my father suggested we shoot some ducks for dinner.
Who wanted to go?
My husband, Lawrence, did.
He was new to the western ethos of hunting your own food.
And I wanted to go, too, even though I was five months pregnant, if only to distill any ideas my family might have about my now being a wimpy New York City pregnant lady capable only of sitting in a rocker ordering BPA free baby bottles online.
Off we set, throwing on parkas and hauling out shotguns.
The route down to the river is a narrow, quarter mile walk through cottonwoods.
The fresh drifts came up to our thighs.
We lumbered along, our spaniel, tory nosing ahead.
Ten yards before the bank, dad motioned us down with his glove.