A Young Man's Game | With Stanley Tucci

Modern Love

The New York Times

Love, New York Times, Nytimes, Essay, Loss, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Redemption, Nyt

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

When Rand Richards Cooper was in his 40s, he was faced with a question: How late is too late to first become a dad? He writes about it in his essay, which is read by Stanley Tucci ("A Private War").

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by...
0:05.0	Produced by the Island at WBUR Boston.
0:18.0	From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:23.0	The New York Times
0:28.0	Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption.
0:32.0	I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.
0:41.0	When Rand Richard's Cooper was in his 40s, he was faced with a question.
0:45.0	How late is too late to first become a dad?
0:49.0	His essay is called, Fatherhood I Now Learn is a Young Man's Game.
0:53.0	It's read by Stanley Tucci, who starred in movies such as The Devil Where's Prada, The Lovely Bones, and Julie and Julia.
1:00.0	His new movie is, A Private War.
1:06.0	The first time in my life I had unprotected sex.
1:09.0	One August night, three summers ago, I was 45.
1:13.0	No pill, or condom, no diaphragm, or IUD.
1:17.0	None of the sundry devices deployed to keep me careering childless.
1:22.0	Through a quarter century of romance with women I had lusted after and sometimes loved.
1:27.0	This time, the woman was my wife, Molly, and we had decided to have a baby.
1:34.0	Molly was nine years younger than I, and we'd been together eight years.
1:39.0	We agonized about children for a long time.
1:43.0	Then we agonized about agonizing.
1:46.0	Deciding in mid-life to become a father unfolds in a series of trenchant recognitions.
1:53.0	A friend at a college reunion says, OK, you've lived one of your two lives.
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