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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.
You know how it goes.
A story makes headlines, and for a while you hear about it constantly.
But then gradually the spotlight fades and those names and faces that were once everywhere, suddenly they're gone.
You rarely get to hear the rest of their story, the story behind the story, but Josh Fattall shared his with modern love.
Heres Joshua Jackson, best known for roles in Showtimes the Affair and the nineties hit Dawsons Creek.
Reading joshs piece reaching out between the.
Bars, Jenny showed up to my welcome home party in Philadelphia.
Hundreds attended, but my eyes kept finding their way back to hers.
It had been three years since we'd seen each other, the last two of which I spent imprisoned partly in solitary confinement in Ebon prison in Tehran, Iran.
On that fateful day more than 26 months earlier, I had been detained with my friends Shane Bauer and Sarah Sherrod after we unknowingly hiked over an unmarked border of Iraqi Kurdistan into Iranian Kurdistan.
We were all college friends vacationing in that relatively safe region between work assignments abroad, and the locals had told us about a beautiful waterfall in the mountains that would make for a suitable day hike.
Our mistake was continuing past the waterfall to the ridgeline for the view, where an armed iranian border guard spotted us and motioned us down to him.
First he took us to his border outpost, and then we were loaded into a car and whisked away.
The iranian authorities ultimately charged us with espionage, which was farcical given we had little money, no language skills, and no means to sustain ourselves beyond a day hike.