Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss, and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
The perfect first date it usually lives only in our dreamscandal light, delicious food, an instant connection.
But in reality, first dates can be an awkward mess and the conversation shallow at best.
Which is the worst thing about first dates for Tim Boomer.
He's the author of this week's essay.
Paul Rust, star of the Netflix comedy Love reads us Tim's essay the end.
Of small talk when my relationship unraveled nearly two years ago, I decided to suspend my career as an actuary in Boston and take a long vacation in Costa Rica, where I planned to learn how to surf and do yoga.
Yes, it was the most cliched response possible for a heartbroken 32 year old Mandev.
After four weeks there, I was traveling by car with several friends I had met at surf school when we came upon a red faced, middle aged woman hitchhiking on the outskirts of a small village.
Our radio was broken and we were bored.
So one woman in our group, Abby, said, we'll offer you a ride on two conditions.
First, you must sing us a song, and then you have to tell us a story.
Do you accept?
The hitchhiker in American responded with a crooked smile and a nod, freeing her hair from behind a Disney visor.
What would you like me to sing?
She asked.
Anything you like, I told her.