2019-10-17
21 分钟Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Magna Chakrabarti.
Let's be honest.
When you're in a loving relationship, you often do things for your partner that you'd rather not do, because that's love.
But have you ever gotten a request from your significant other that might go a little too far?
Judith Newman did, and she writes about it in her essay.
He's going back to his former wife, sort of.
It's read by Marisa Tomei, who's starring now in the Rose tattoo on Broadway.
There's something I have to tell you, John said.
Do you remember ever wanting to hear the sentence after that one?
I don't.
There's something I have to tell you.
Has never in the history of man been followed by we won the lottery or I have discovered a cure for blindness.
This is especially true when the person uttering that sentence is your husband and he is about to die.
I'm not a big believer in deathbed confessions.