2019-10-03
19 分钟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 Chakrabarty.
For more than 30 years, Ben Matlin has been in an interabled relationship where one partner lives with a disability and the other doesnt.
In fact, he says he coined the phrase, and in his essay, he writes about why and how that relationship has endured.
His piece is read by Peter Sarsgaard.
Peter has starred in an education and Wormwood, and his new movie is the Sound of Silence.
When Mary Lois and I started our relationship on that humid night in Stamford, Connecticut, we may not have expected it to last.
After all, I was unable to scratch my own nose, let alone walk, and she was three years older than me and far more independent.
I asked if I could kiss her.
I had to ask because I couldn't lean in on my own.
My body doesn't work that way.
So she leaned in and kissed me, as I'd never been kissed before.
You were just a kid, she told me recently.
I was 19.
She wore her straight auburn hair and a short boy cut.
Then, more than 30 years later, she still does, though the color has faded.
I wasn't only attracted to her iconoclastic spirit, alluring eyes, and figure.