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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, Magna Chacrabardi.

The biggest decisions in our life often come down to leaps of faith,

changing careers, moving cross-country, and of course, deciding to spend the rest of your life

with someone. This week, actor and poet Amber Tamplin, known for the sisterhood of the

traveling pants and 127 hours, brings us the story of a leap so dramatic, it's as if it were

straight out of a movie. Here she is reading Kelly Thomas's essay Ready to Take a Faithful Leap.

As we floated in a Moroccan-tyled pool on the outskirts of Palm Springs, California,

my boyfriend of three months told me about an old English custom in which two people are married,

if they chant, I marry thee three times, clap and unison, and kiss. Finding his story charming

and amusing, I laughed. David and I had met on the film set in Los Angeles. Like me, he was a refugee

from academia. I was attracted by his salt and pepper hair as much as by his insistent optimism,

and we quickly developed a comfortable repertoire. But that afternoon in Palm Springs,

I sensed something was different. Only after a moment of awkward silence did I realize that David

was proposing to me. He wanted us to make a home together. For me, the concept of home is loaded.

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