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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
Im your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
Most of us have had our hearts broken at some point or another.
Maybe youre in the thick of it right now.
If so, take heart, because this weeks essay, written by renowned novelist Lilly King offers a silver lining to heartbreak.
Zooey Lister Jones is known for her work in CBSS life in pieces.
She reads Lilly Kings essay an empty heart is one that can be filled.
I was 31 before I got my heart broken.
It was spring.
I had quit my job and driven across country to an artist's colony in New England, the kind of place that provides you with a cabin in the woods that is not within sight of any of the other cabins.
My residency was for eight weeks.
I hoped to finish my first novel there.
The poet arrived a week after I did.
He was too skinny, but his eyes were very blue.
I think his first words to me were something about how his throat felt tight.
I was feeling the same thing, I told him.
Maybe, he said it was a reaction to all the MSG they put in the food.