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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss, and redemption.
I'm your host, Magna Chakrabarti.
When it comes to family, there's the family you're related to by blood, and there's the family you bring into your life by choice.
And sometimes you find those people in unexpected places, as Julie Margaret Hogben did Saturday Night Live.
Cast member Cecily strong reads Julie's essay when the doorman is your main mandeh.
It was summertime in Manhattan, dark and balmy, almost midnight on the Upper west side.
Drinks had gone well.
Walking me home, he held my hand.
Tipsy, I said, you can't come up, and stopped near a stoop.
I don't want to, he said coyly, placing his hands on my waist, drawing me close.
But I do want to see you again.
He smiled.
I smiled.
What I mean is, if you want to kiss me good night, it has to be here.
We weren't even close to my building.