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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 Chakrabarty.
It can be really challenging to get the timing of your love life right.
How do you find the right person at the right time?
Well, for Elizabeth Koster, there was something else.
Adding to that her mothers cancer.
Elizabeth writes about that in her essay, agreeing to accept and move on.
It's read by Sarah Goldberg, who stars opposite Bill Hader in Barry on HBO.
After my mother was told she had incurable cancer, she became obsessed with finding me a husband.
One afternoon from her office, between negotiations for a client's book contract, she called three times to tell me about a man my father had met who worked in a Soho lamp store.
My mother, a powerful publisher and literary agent who had championed Stephen King, now wanted to set me up with someone who sold lamps.
He's leaving for France soon, she said.
Call him.
Although irritated, I went home to put on my tight jeans and spaghetti strap shirt and walked over to the store, where a handsome man talked about his coming trip to France without asking me a single question.
During my mother's next frantic phone call, she said to look at two celebrity brothers webpages and choose the one I liked so she could forward my photo.
I cringed, but thought, hey, you never know.