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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.
How do you talk to your children about loss?
What secrets do you decide to keep, and for how long?
And when do you decide to tell them everything?
Emily Listfield tells the story of how she faced those questions in her piece what the sea took away a daughter restores its read by Carmen Ojogo.
She starred in Selma as Coretta Scott King, and you can see her in the new season of True Detective on HBO.
14 years ago, my husband vanished.
A talented sculptor whose work was in major collections, he had been in a downward spiral for over a year, unable to finish a single piece of work, tumbling into alcoholism, paralyzed by depression.
After ten years of marriage, he moved into his studio in lower Manhattan while I stayed in our nearby apartment with our five year old daughter, Sasha.
We spoke every day, often more honestly than we had in years, about the drinking that was destroying our marriage, the demons he had faced and triumphed over in the past, and why he couldn't fight them now.
Most of all, we spoke of Sasha.
He adored her and, despite everything, remained a doting father.
I hoped the separation would make him face what he was in danger of losing his family, the ability to create art and get the help he needed.
Instead, he went to Florida to stay with a woman he had dated in college and fell further into an alcohol soaked haze filled with self blame, unreachable at midnight on an August night.
A few days before he was to return home, he apparently swam into the ocean as far as he could go and didn't come back.