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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Magna Chakrabarti.
When we take stock of the people who matter most to us, there are the spouses, the family members, the best friends, the partners.
And then there are the people who aren't any of those things, but who change our lives anyway.
Emily Roboteaus essay is about one of those people.
Its read by Lake Bell, who has starred in its complicated in a world and wet hot american summer.
You can see her now in bless this mess on ABC.
No one goes into a move expecting to fall for her mover.
I was no exception.
This was back in October 2001, when people advertise their services by taping flyers to lamp posts among signs for the 911 missing.
That's where I found Derek's number, which I called in secret.
While my boyfriend was getting sloshed at whatever Brooklyn dive sold the cheapest drinks, we were being evicted from our apartment, a third floor walk up over a check cashing store.
My boyfriend, normally a sad drunk, had trashed the place.
Our landlord was wise to sever ties with him.
I was too insecure to do the same.
He was my high school sweetheart and best friend, but living together was wearing me out.
I decided to move in with a girlfriend.