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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.
Parenting can really do a number on you.
The outsized emotions that come with loving and protecting a tiny person can be so overwhelming.
You look at yourself occasionally and think, who is this person?
Susan Peribeau writes about one of those moments in her essay when mothers bully back.
It's read by Ellie Kemper, who stars in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix.
Once I threw a playground ball at the head of a boy who was repeatedly dunking my young son underwater.
Before I threw the ball, I shouted at him to stop, but he continued.
I was at the other end of the pool, maybe a six second swim away, but my five year old son was gasping and pleading, and the fastest way to make my point was to throw the ball.
I played college baseball.
I have a pretty good arm.
I nailed the older boy in the back of the head, and he cried out, spun around furiously to face me.
I'm pretty sure he wasn't expecting to see a mom in an unflattering swimsuit.
But there I was.
Despite the awkward silence on the pool deck, where family members of both boys sat forward in their lounge chairs, I felt no shame or regret.
I felt triumphant.