2018-05-29
27 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.
Im your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
You can choose your significant other, but you cant choose your in laws.
When free spirit Artis Henderson first met her future mother in law, a conservative christian, they didnt exactly hit it off, but she never could have imagined the event that would bring them together.
Constance Wu, who stars in the upcoming film Crazy Rich Asians, reads Artis essay marry a man who loves his mother.
When Miles and I decided to live together, I asked him if his mother, Terry, would be upset.
We sat at the kitchen table in his apartment near Fort Rucker, Alabama, while the warm fall evening pressed against the sliding glass doors.
Miles would graduate from flight school in a few months, and the army would be sending him to Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
My job in Tallahassee would be ending at the same time, and the move felt right to both of us.
Don't worry about it, he said.
He leaned back in his wooden chair and propped a foot against the leg of the table.
She'll probably want to send us a house warming gift.
Go ahead and think of something.
I thought placemats would be nice.
Terry came for a visit three weeks after we moved into our tiny rented house on the outskirts of Fort Bragg.
She did not bring placemats.