2017-12-07
20 分钟Modern.
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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 someone has Alzheimer's, it can feel like the person they are and the person that their family knows and loves has vanished.
But sometimes, deep into the disease, other parts of them appear.
That's what Dini Hartzog Mislock writes about in this week's essay.
Katrina Balfe of the Stars show Outlander reads Dini's piece a boyfriend too good.
To be true eight years ago, my mother received an unusual call from her mother.
Have you got a minute?
My grandmother asked.
She then claimed that my 60 year old aunt, my mother's sister, was seeing someone.
My mother was incredulous.
Unless she's sneaking out of the window at night, she said, I'm not sure how she's going on these dates.
She's living with me and Ricky.
My aunt had undergone double hip replacement surgery and was recuperating under the care of my parents.
My grandmother continued, well, this new gentleman actually has been in love with your sister since kindergarten.
He's just been waiting for Ronnie to get out of the picture.
Ronnie had been my aunt's husband for 40 years, and he had recently left her, but not in the way that anyone had expected.