2018-04-19
21 分钟Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
Here's the an older man and a younger woman at a bar, and she's paying more attention to him than he expected.
So what does he do?
Andy Christie tells us his story in she handed me a cup from the fountain of youth.
It's read by Mel Rodriguez, who stars in the new film overboard and the Fox show the last man on earth.
When I turned 50, my girlfriend took me to a dinner at one of those places where all the vegetables are baby, if not prenatal and the waiters aren't much older.
My son, my brother joined us, making it an intimate gathering of all the people I love.
I was miserable.
This was it.
Where were the balloons, the band, the this is your life surprise guests.
What does one have to do for a little extra attention?
I mean, I had successfully navigated five decades.
If I were a 50 year old bridge or a decommissioned aircraft carrier, there'd be fireworks.
I wasn't proud of it, but I wanted more.
A week later, I'm in a bar down near Bowery with Janelle.
She's 30 or 29 or 32 something pretty young.
My girlfriend and I had recently met her at a party given by a mutual acquaintance, and we hit it off.