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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.
When Patty Dan met her husband, Willam, she was in her late thirties.
Her dreams of a lifelong partner and family were all but complete.
But then reality struck.
Minnie driver stars in the ABC comedy speechless.
Here she is reading Patty Dan's essay.
Our story ended with a slow fade to black.
The snowy night I met Willem at a synagogue in New York City.
I knew we would marry, but I did not know that it would only last ten years.
He was sitting in front of me and I fell in love with the back of his neck.
The floor sloped down to the front, so I didn't realize he was six foot three, more than a foot taller than I was.
He was from the Netherlands, the son of a mennonite minister who was drawn to Judaism.
I was the child of suburban, assimilated Jews.
He was almost 40 and had never wed, and I was 37 and had just about given up on men, jewish or otherwise.
Soon after, he dragged me to the Lower east side, where we met an old rabbi who looked at us a bit askance and said wisely, you will have a sweet and crazy life together.
Which we did.