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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.
Modern Love will be back with brand new episodes in two weeks, but today we're bringing you some of our favorite past episodes.
We've put together a playlist featuring three stories about the secrets that can define a relationship, starting with an essay by Amelia Blancara about a secret her father tried to keep.
Danielle Brooks is best known as Tasty on the Netflix series Orange is the New Black, which recently released its 6th season on Netflix.
She reads Amelia's essay about that rustle.
In the bushes when my sister Ardell first told me about the binder, I could feel my body tense.
A younger version of me would have immediately dialed my father and confronted him, because who would believe that?
My 77 year old father, Google, stalks my boyfriends and keeps a binder of his salvage details and opinions for reference.
But years of therapy taught me to wait 10 seconds before automatically exploding with anger.
So in this case, I was able to keep cool long enough to decide to bring it up later with him in person.
If you were to look up the term helicopter parenting in the Wikipedia of my life, you would see a picture of my parents.
They would be the ones in the Huey, the ominous military chopper used in the Vietnam War.
Noisy and clunky, my parents made their presence known in my childhood house.
They read mail addressed to my siblings and me, rummaged through drawers, and opened doors without knocking.
It was the norm for them to be invasive, and their lack of respect for privacy annoyed me.