Modern.
The podcast is supported by produced by the Ilab at WBUR Boston from the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
90 days may seem like a passing phase, but for Brooke Reinhardt, it was the amount of time when her beautiful life, marriage, new house, and plans to start a family all came to a complete stop.
Anna Chlumsky stars in the hit HBO comedy Veep, now in its final season.
She reads us Brooks essay sharing the shame after my arrest we had been married for just over a year when the FBI showed up at our house at 06:00 a.m.
and arrested me.
They arrested my husband, too, although at the time that seemed beside the point, a stickler for rules who had never even gotten a speeding ticket.
I was handcuffed in my mismatched pajamas and hauled away.
My teeth weren't even brushed.
The charges against me, against us both, were wire fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
In a state of shock, I began babbling to the FBI agents that I would never open mail that wasn't addressed to me.
Never, ever.
If only it were that simple.
When the indictment was unsealed, I learned that my dear husband had, in the simplest terms, used my identity to embezzle tens of thousands of dollars from his workplace, among other crimes.
His using my identity made it look as if I was involved.
I wasn't.
I appeared in a federal courtroom to plead not guilty.
A newspaper photographer chased me down the street, trying to get a picture of my face.