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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
Im your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
When Anna March started dating her boyfriend Adam, people made a lot of assumptions about their relationship because Adam is paraplegic.
But as Anna writes in her piece finding my own rescuer, most of those assumptions didnt reflect reality.
Her essay is read by Mandy Moore, who stars in nbcs this is us.
I'm alive.
That's what Adam kept whispering as he waited for the ambulance.
At 16, he was trapped in a mangled minivan, his spine twisted at the 7th thoracic vertebrae.
He was in so much pain, he knew he couldn't be dead.
I'm alive, he repeated, both to stay that way and to count his blessings.
I met him 24 years later, when we were both in our forties.
By then, he was zipping around in a sporty wheelchair.
When I asked him how he had become a paraplegic, he told me about the accident, his friend driving sober but going too fast, about his weeks in the hospital and months in rehab, about the agonizing surgery to fuse his spine and then counseling, where he was encouraged to mourn his old life and accept his new one.
An incomplete paraplegic, he still has some feeling and motion below his injury, meaning, yes, he could have sex, which was good to know.
After we started seeing each other, that was the first question my friends asked.
I was crazy about Adam.
I told him everything about my life, my abusive father, complicated mother, failed relationships, professional crises and successes.