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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.
Love is a leap of faith, and some people take a bigger jump than others.
This week, Kyra Sedgwick, star of TNT's the Closer and the new ABC show ten Days in the Valley, reads Ellen Graff's essay our joy knows no bounds or lanes.
My chinese friend Yuji invited herself over for a serious talk.
Her English is poor and she struggled to convey her message, but she was concerned.
She had noticed I was lonely.
Her brother in China, Zheng Hua, was lonely, too.
Maybe he and I would like each other.
She offered to send me to China to find out.
But if you dont like him, its okay, she said, her vocabulary exhausted, she drew a deep breath and said, okay.
All done.
I was both stunned by her offer and strangely open to it.
At 46, I had been burned to ash by divorce and had crawled back toward life, sometimes on hands and knees.
The common wisdom is that people in seeking love risk losing themselves.
But I did not fear this loss, and I thought that not choosing for myself might work better than choosing.
I didn't wonder about what my perfect person would be like.