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, Meghna Chakrabarti.
Getting undressed in front of your partner can be really hard, and for Jameson Rich, it was even more complicated.
He writes about it in his piece the shirt stays on.
Its read by Finn Whitrock, whos been nominated for two Emmy Awards and is starring now in the movie right when.
You get work, arent you going to take your clothes off?
She asked, her fingers pulling at the edges of my t shirt.
It wasnt sexy the way she said it.
No wry smile or soft coo came with the words just frustration.
The ceiling lights were off, but I knew the narrow light spilling from the lamp on my bureau would be enough for her to see the pale red marks on my chest, which had been fading for so long that they had gone back to being shiny again.
No one had ever put that question to me so directly when it came to keeping my shirt on, I'd always gotten away with playing dumb or chalking it up to the hastiness of passion.
I have scars, I managed to say as bluntly as I could.
I was born with a rare heart defect for which there is no cure, only a series of stop gaps and half measures.
I had undergone four full open heart operations by the time I was 15, as well as dozens of less invasive procedures.
I'm 23 now, and I'm on my fourth pacemaker.
I've spent nearly 20,000 hours of my young life inside hospital walls for many years.
I was not healthy enough to live out of the hospital for more than a few weeks at a time.