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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Magna Chakrabarti.
Sometimes parents have to make an excruciating should they prioritize their child's safety over their happiness?
That's the question Lori Frankel confronts in this essay.
It's read by Jennifer Beals, who stars in the NBC drama taken.
When our son turned six, my husband and I bought him a puppet theater and a chest of dress up clothes because he liked to put on plays.
We filled the chest with 20 items from goodwill, mostly grown man attire, ties, button down shirts, a gray page boy cap, and a suit vest.
But we didn't want his or his castmate's creative output to be curtailed by a lack of costume choices.
So we also included high heels, a pink straw hat, a dazzling fairy skirt, and a sparkly green halter dress.
He was thrilled with these presents.
He put on the sparkly green dress right away.
In a sense, he never really took it off.
For a while.
He wore the dress only when we were at home and only when we were alone.
He would change back into shorts and a t shirt if we were running errands or had people coming over.
Then we would come home or our guest would leave and he would change back to the sparkly green dress, asking me to tie the halter behind his neck and the sash around his waist.
Eventually he stopped changing out of it.