2019-08-29
20 分钟Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
Today's essay is about making friends in a really unusual place.
Jeannie Venasco writes about her relationship with a woman named Anita in her essay my Platonic Romance on the psych ward.
It's read by actor and director Miriam Shore, who stars in tv lands younger.
She's also appeared in the Americans, the Good Wife, and Jessica Jones.
Anita and I met five years ago as roommates at a hospital just outside of New York City.
According to the brochure in our patient intake folders, the hospital's scenic grounds boasted rolling lawns, open meadows, forests, and a gazebo.
But why would we care about the landscaping?
The brochure reminded me of a commercial I had seen for Hulu.
While watching Hulu, we didn't need an advertisement for the hospital.
We were locked inside.
I was 28, stuck in yet another manic episode in yet another psychiatric ward.
Anita was 24, experiencing her first manic episode.
A lack of sleep had left her with purple crescents under her eyes.