Modern.
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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
Im your host, Magna Chakrabarti.
Rock Bottom is a lonely place, and sometimes taking care of someone else is the only way out.
Thats what Paul Stetonghi writes about in his essay learning humanity from dogs.
Its read by Ethan Hawke, who directed and co wrote the new film Blaze, about the life of singer songwriter Blaise Foley.
I came home from work on a rainy November afternoon more than a decade ago to find a 20 foot U Haul truck in my driveway and behind it a police car.
My first thought was fast, clear, instinctive.
Are we being evicted?
I had lived in the little rental home in middlebury, Vermont, with my wife from much of the previous year.
It hadn't been an easy year.
We fought constantly, the fights escalating into ugly confrontations and the confrontations lasting long into the night.
But that morning I'd left the house suspecting nothing.
I was certainly unprepared for the scene that I would encounter later that day, the wooden headboard of my bed bobbing through the front door, cradled in the arms of my father in law.
What's going on?
I asked.