Modern.
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From the New York Times and Wbur Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
We all hope to meet the right person.
The thing is, that's not enough.
You've gotta meet the right person at the right time.
Well, when she was in college, Karen Kaplan knew that, and she was worried that she'd met the person she wanted to end up with, but met that person too early.
She writes about it in her essay let's meet again in five years.
It's read by Regina King, who won an Academy Award last year for her performance in if Beale street could talk.
She's starring in HBO's Watchmen, airing now on Sunday nights.
When I told Howard that we should meet again in five years to see if we were meant to be together, I thought I was just being practical.
My idea was less about romance than hedging our bets.
I was only 18 then, a freshman at Cornell, and he was barely 21.
We had dated since September, and now it was spring.
Soon we would be headed back to opposite coast, key to San Francisco and me to suburban New Jersey.
The impending separation was forcing us to reevaluate.
Our dorm room conversation went something like this.
Me, I think finding the one is a matter of person, place and time.