Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss, and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
Two years ago, on Valentine's Day, Amy Krauss Rosenthal finished writing an essay that would eventually be published in the modern Love column.
It was called you may want to marry my husband.
Just ten days after the piece came out, Amy died from ovarian cancer.
Her essay became one of the most widely read in the history of the column.
This past summer, her husband, Jason, wrote his own piece in response.
We'll hear that next week, but today, here's Deborah Winger reading Amy's original essay, you may want to marry my husband.
I have been trying to write this for a while, but the morphine and lack of juicy cheeseburgers what has it been now?
Five weeks without real food?
Have drained my energy and interfered with whatever prose prowess remains.
Additionally, the intermittent micro naps that keep whisking me away mid sentence are clearly not propelling my work forward as quickly as I would like, but they are, admittedly, a bit of trippy fun.
Still, I have to stick with it because I'm facing a deadline, in this case, pressing one.
I need to say this and say it right while I have a your attention and b a pulse.
I have been married to the most extraordinary man for 26 years.
I was planning on at least another 26 together.
Want to hear a sick joke?
A husband and wife walk into the emergency room in the late evening on September 5, 2015.