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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 it comes to gestures of love, it's the thought that counts, right?
But sometimes a well meant gift is misinterpreted and a good deed gets punished, as it did for Ellen Urbani.
June Diane Raphael, who plays Brianna Hansen in the Netflix series Grace and Frankie, reads Ellen's essay a flower delivery that brought more pain than pleasure.
With the best of intentions, I once did something regrettable.
I sent my younger sisters flowers.
The three of us have always been close.
When we reunite at home, the images are everywhere, the matching ballet tutus dancing across the wall, our childhood selves captured on grainy slides that our parents project onto a tacked up sheet in the living room.
On point at the annual recital.
Arms raised, I graze my sister's shoulders with my fingers, conjoining us.
We touch in nearly every picture in a flash of light.
We are repositioned as catholic schoolgirls, strolling hand in hand down the street.
Another flash and we're younger still, the two of them riding me like a pack mule, chubby hands knotted in the mane of my hair, my red curls clashing with their straight brown locks.
Our hair was our primary distinguishing characteristic until I married young and spent my entire early adulthood with a man.
Whereas my sisters matured into middle age.
Unattached but eager for romance, I sent my sisters flowers to their workplaces.