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New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss, and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
Within marriage is a promise to stay committed to a spouse through all the changes that can happen in a lifetime.
But for Diane Daniel, those changes went further than she ever imagined.
Anne Dowd, who recently won an Emmy for her performance in Hulu's drama the Handmaid's Tale, reads Diane's essay.
My husband is now my wife.
The alarm went off at 04:00 a.m.
on a Tuesday.
My husband and I had been told to arrive 2 hours early, as if for a flight.
My eyelids were puffy from the night before, when he had held me and.
Said he was sorry, so very sorry.
I'd wept without warning after dinner because I would not see his face again, his perfectly average face with a sizable nose and weak chin, the face I'd held and kissed and been happy to.
Greet for eight years.
Do you still have your wedding ring on?
I asked.
They said to take it off.