2018-10-17
19 分钟Modern love.
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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.
Heres a scene that might be familiar to a lot of divorced parents.
Youre on the phone with your child.
Youre desperate to connect, and one way or another, it feels like you keep missing each other.
Tim el Hajj writes about that feeling in his piece.
As a father, I was hardly a perfect fit.
It's read by John C.
Reilly, who stars in the new film the Sisters Brothers.
During our weekly telephone call, my ten year old son told me he wanted a Yankees cap.
Not just any Yankees cap, it had to be a fitted cap.
Fitted caps don't have the plastic adjuster on the back, he told me.
All the pro players wear them.
Although fitted caps cost only about 30 or $35, I didn't think I could afford one.
I lived alone in a small apartment in the Bronx, nearly 200 miles from my son and my ex wife, who remained in the Pennsylvania town where I had spent most of my life.
I was barely getting by in a variety of part time jobs while putting myself through school.