2019-12-24
22 分钟Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Magna Chakrabarti.
For this holiday season, we're revisiting some of our favorite modern love essays that were adapted for the modern love television show.
Today we're revisiting an essay by Eve Pell called the Race grows sweeter near its final lap.
It's the basis for episode eight of the Amazon show.
Singer songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter reads us Eve's story.
She's known for songs like down at the Twist and Shout, I feel lucky and her rendition of passionate kisses.
Here she is with Eve Pell's essay the race grows sweeter near its final lap.
Sam and I dated for two years.
Then when I turned 70 and he 80, we had a joint 150th birthday party and announced our engagement.
We married a year later.
We came from very different backgrounds.
Sam, a japanese American who had been interned in the camps during World War two, worked his way through college and was happily married to his japanese american wife for more than 40 years until her death.
I grew up as a fox hunting debutante whose colonial New York ancestors were lords of the manor of Pelham.
Typical of my much married family, I'd been divorced twice.