A Younger Man

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Heather von Rohr had moved to Los Angeles with aspirations: to make it as a screenwriter and to fall in love, marry and have a child. In need of a day job, she took an entry-level position at the research library of a prestigious film academy. At the library, she met Nick — who was 13 years younger than she was and in no position to support a family. Today, we also meet Edgar and Beatriz, a couple featured in our Vows column, who tell their own story of letting go of expectations and finding each other in the process.

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0:00.0	Love now and stronger than anything.
0:07.0	And I love you more than anything.
0:12.0	From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
0:18.0	This is Modern Love.
0:20.0	Today's essay is about an age difference,
0:23.0	in a potential romantic relationship.
0:26.0	But actually, it's not really an age difference.
0:29.0	It's more like an age gap, an age gulf, an age chasm.
0:36.0	It's called, Please Lord, Let Him be 27,
0:40.0	written by Heather Von Roer, and read by Sam Des.
0:52.0	He had been in Los Angeles for a month,
0:55.0	but he said he hadn't seen much.
0:57.0	The ocean, a couple of record stores,
0:59.0	and the stretch of concrete he hiked to get to the library
1:02.0	where I happened to work.
1:04.0	I lent him my copy of The Day of the Locust,
1:07.0	and offered to show him around.
1:10.0	I was almost 37.
1:12.0	He was much younger.
1:15.0	How much younger?
1:17.0	I was afraid to find out.
1:22.0	A year and a half earlier,
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