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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, Megna Chacrabardi.

It can be really challenging to get the timing of your love life right.

How do you find the right person at the right time?

Well, for Elizabeth Coster, there was something else adding to that pressure.

Her mother's cancer.

Elizabeth writes about that in her essay,

agreeing to accept and move on.

It's read by Sarah Goldberg,

who stars opposite Bill Hayder in Barry on HBO.

After my mother was told she had incurable cancer,

she became obsessed with finding me a husband.

One afternoon from her office,

between negotiations for a client's book contract,

she called three times to tell me about a man my father had met,

who worked in a Soho Lamp store.

My mother, a powerful publisher and literary agent,

who had championed Stephen King,

now wanted to set me up with someone who sold lamps.

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