2018-06-20
18 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.
Finding the right partner can feel impossible, but not as impossible as finding the perfect parking space in Manhattan.
Andy Raskin describes the search for both in his essay the Hunter Gatherer parking division.
It's read by Jason Alexander of Seinfeld fame.
He was one of our first and favorite readers for modern love, so we asked him to come back and record another essay for us.
Here's Jason for my third date with Tracy, I'm taking her to the some he rice shop in Manhattan.
Every Long island family has a favorite restaurant in Chinatown, and ours is the some hay rice shop.
You're gonna love this place, I tell her.
When I was a kid, I used to order pork chow mai fun and smear it on the plate with ketchup.
Tracy beams at me from the passenger seat.
She clearly likes that I'm already sharing family stuff.
I wait for the pedestrians to clear before turning off canal onto Mott.
At Bayard, I take a left.
There's the restaurant, I say.
You want to get out and I'll go park?