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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.
Welcome to our Valentine's Day special.
Sometimes there's nothing better than a seriously satisfying binge.
So sit back and get ready for three handpicked modern love essays.
The first story you'll hear today was written by Gary Presley.
Gary had all but given up on the idea of finding love.
But as the romantics out there know, love can find you when you least expect it, and sometimes even when youre resisting it.
Colin Farrell reads Garys essay the actor is known for his wide ranging work in the films in Bruges, the Lobster, and most recently in the Harry Potter spin off Fantastic Beasts and where to find them.
Heres Colin Farrell reading Gary Presleys essay.
Would my heart outrun its pursuer?
I am near quadriplegic, a result of polio, and I cannot stand to be able to live in my own apartment as I desired, rather than in the custodial care of a nursing home required the assistance of a rotating crew of attendants to transfer me from wheelchair to bed, bed to wheelchair, wheelchair to shower chair.
You get the idea.
The female attendants preferred to come in pairs.
All the better to help a man into his bed and there undress him.
I am somewhat deferential in the company of women, and I had made a conscientious effort to avoid any touch, any word that might be construed as improper.
With that, the arrangement sailed along with no problems, soon settling into a job done and forgotten, at least until Belinda, a young mother of two boys, showed up as half my attendant team.