35. Jason Rosenthal's dying wife wrote a secret personal ad to find him love

All The Wiser

Kimi Culp

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.9 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In March 2017, Chicago writer Amy Rosenthal wrote what may be the most widely read personal ad in history. But it wasn't for her. Rosenthal was planting the seeds for the world - and hopefully the right woman - to fall in love with her husband Jason, knowing that she had very little time left to live after a battle with ovarian cancer. "You May Want to Marry My Husband" was published in the popular Modern Love column in the New York Times, and was read by millions around the world. In it, she gushes about her handsome, thoughtful, and talented husband; the life they had together, and how she hoped he would move forward. Jason, a lawyer and now public speaker on the topic of grieving, offers answers to what became of him after Amy's death, and what it was like to open his heart to love again.

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0:56.5	Welcome to All the Wiser. I'm Kimmy Kulfe. All the Wiser is a one-for-one podcast. For every
1:03.2	inspiring interview you hear, we donate $2,000 to charities around the world. I believe in the
1:10.0	power of storytelling to inspire us all to think differently about the world around us.
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1:22.1	people who have been to the brink and back, stories of survival against all odds,
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1:55.6	you will be notified every time we bring you a new story. Today's episode is a love story, and my guest is Jason Rosenthal.
2:06.4	When Jason's wife and the mother of his three children, Amy, laid dying in her bed from ovarian cancer,
2:13.3	she had one last secret project. Without Jason's knowledge, she wrote him a love letter in the form of a personal ad for his future wife.
2:25.1	Ten days before her passing, the New York Times published Amy's letter, titled, You May Want to Marry My Husband, and it went viral around the world.
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