Modern.
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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 Chakrabarti.
First, romances are intense.
They can feel like they might last forever, but mostly they dont.
However, in this weeks essay, Mary Claire Lawson writes about a first love that broke all the rules.
Its read by Amanda Seyfried.
She starred in Mamma Mia and mean girls.
Her new movie is the Art of racing in the rain, in theaters August.
9 one Monday night in May 3 years ago, I was waiting outside Enid's the best macaroni and cheese joint in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, for yet another mystery date to arrive.
Lately, I had been binging on bad blind dates since moving to New York for college 14 years earlier.
I had looked for love in the cracks and crevices of every wrinkle of the five burrows, from friendster to nerve.com to Craigslist's misconnections.
I had tried everything short of leaving the area.
Oh wait.
I also flew to meet a stranger in Georgia for the weekend.
Now I was at Love's rock bottom.
I had spent my twenties wracked by adolescent anxiety and felt paralyzed by the length of my singlehood.