2019-04-04
22 分钟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.
Heres a problem.
Most of us never so many people want to date you and send you baked goods that you actually have to turn them away.
Well, that did not happen to Amy Cohen, but it did happen to her father.
And Amy writes about the difference between her fathers dating life and her own in the essay ah, to be old, male, and single.
Its read by Natasha Leone.
Shes the star and co creator of the Netflix series Russian Doll.
Manhattan may have a scarcity of affordable apartments and parking spaces, but apparently it has no shortage of older widows and comely divorces, many of whom wanted to date my newly widowed father.
Whenever I visited him in his Upper east side apartment, it was not uncommon for us to be interrupted by the doorman calling up to say, a lady just left a Bundt cake downstairs.
What am I supposed to do with all these women?
He would say.
I feel bad, but there are just too many to adjust to his new social life.
My 76 year old father, whose old clothes were stained with bloody Mary mix from his evening cocktails, purchased a new wardrobe of bright crew neck sweaters and khakis.
His dates often sported silky hair teased into virtual pillbox hats.
They were all very nice and charitably active.
But, as my father would say after each one, she's no mom.