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This is a bonus episode of Modern Love.
I'm Meghna Chakrabarti.
Amie Krause Rosenthal was known for her award winning children's books, films, and her memoir, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life.
But she'll also be remembered for her modern love essay, which was published in March.
She wrote it just weeks before dying from ovarian cancer.
Her essay became one of the most shared pieces in the history of the column.
Deborah Winger reads Amy's essay, you, may want to marry my husband I've been.
Trying to write this for a while, but the morphine and lack of juicy cheeseburgers what has it been now?
Five weeks without real food?
Have drained my energy and interfered with whatever prose prowess remains.
Additionally, the intermittent micro naps that keep whisking me away mid sentence are clearly not propelling my work forward as quickly as I would like, but they are, admittedly, a bit of trippy fun.
Still, I have to stick with it because I'm facing a deadline, in this case a pressing one.
I need to say this and say it right while I have a your attention and b a pulse.
I have been married to the most extraordinary man for 26 years.
I was planning on at least another 26 together.
Want to hear a sick joke?
A husband and wife walk into the emergency room in the late evening on September 5, 2015.