2017-02-09
24 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.
Ryan Knighton and his wife Tracy, have been together for 20 years.
Hes blind now, but in the beginning, when Ryan was still sighted, he made a point of storing away a memory of Tracys face.
How he deals with everything else is another story.
David Oyelow, known for his award winning portrayal of Reverend Martin Luther King junior in the Oscar nominated film Selma, reads Ryan Knightons essay seeing the world through.
My wife's eyes my birthday is a conflicted 24 hours.
While I'm more than happy to bumble about this life looking for whatever it is we look for, my birthday also happens to mark a second beginning the morning I turned 18, I was told I was going blind.
My doctor said the twilight would dim for another five, maybe ten years.
Then, well, poof.
Now, as someone for whom the lights have gone out, I puzzle over our zeal for blowing out candles on cakes.
Sighted folks get off on the strangest rituals.
Not that I'm party pooping at my own bash.
I have other causes for celebration.
For one thing, my wife, Tracy, and I were born on the same day, 12 hours apart.
We discovered this when we met in graduate school ten years ago, when I was still a somewhat sighted guy.
Our joint birthday catapulted us into a first date, wings and a beer at a sports bar.