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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 Chakrabardi.

Here's a problem most of us never have.

So many people want to date you and send you baked goods

that you actually have to turn them away.

Well, that did not happen to Amy Cohen, but it did happen to her father.

And Amy writes about the difference between her father's dating life and her own in the essay,

ah, to be old, male and single.

It's read by Natasha Leon.

She's the star and co-creator of the Netflix series, Russian Doll.

Manhattan may have a scarcity of affordable apartments and parking spaces,

but apparently it has no shortage of older widows and cum-lead divorces,

many of whom wanted to date my newly widowed father.

Whenever I visited him at his Upper East Side apartment,

it was not uncommon for us to be interrupted by the door-man calling up to say,

a lady just left a bunk-cake downstairs.

What am I supposed to do with all these women, he would say?

I feel bad, but there are just too many!

To adjust to his new social life, my 76-year-old father,

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