Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
Im your host, Meghna Chakrabarty.
How do we choose what to hold onto from loved ones after theyve died?
Doris Yarovich asks that question in her essay on a serpentine road with the top down its read by Michelle Rodriguez, who starred in the Fast and Furious movies Avatar and lost, among others.
You can see her alongside Viola Davis in the new movie Widows.
The skies opened up as I watched the tow truck winch my teal Alfa Romeo onto the flatbed.
The 30 year old convertible again refused to run, and as I dried the rain off my arms, I thought it was probably time to get rid of it.
My husband loved the spider, which our kids named the happy car.
But before he succumbed to melanoma at 48, he specifically instructed us not to make the car a shrine.
I held onto it anyway.
I rarely drive it.
I had intended to use it to teach our kids to drive stick shift, but that never happened.
I couldn't bear them grinding those gears.
The downpour ended the moment the tow truck left.
Steam rose from the driveway and refracted the sudden sunshine.
It was a sign, I told myself.
Time to let go.
I tried to ignore the immediate heaviness against my breastbone.