Modern.
The podcast is supported by produced by the Ilab at WBUR Boston.
From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
Your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
Some people are sure they want children, some are sure they don't.
And some people just aren't sure.
But what about being the fun aunt or uncle?
Evan James found that role fit him perfectly.
Tan France stars in Netflix's queer eye.
His new show is called next in fashion.
He reads Evans essay, a role I was born to play.
I never did want children of my own, but competitive thoughts about family buildings started to invade my mind a little over two years ago when my older brother and his wife had a baby girl.
Oh, so you think you're just gonna go and give birth?
I said to myself, well, I'll show you.
I'll have five kids.
No, eight.
I'm gonna be the best, most overachieving gay dad in America.
My drive for one upmanship didn't last long.
Fearing that if I did have a child, I would end up with a we need to talk about Kevin situation on my hands, I soon yielded to gentler emotions, pride at the sight of a flourishing family tree of protective instinct and giddy excitement.