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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.

Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption. I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

Think about the most embarrassing, awful, cataclysmically bad date you've ever been on.

Did it end in the emergency room? No? Okay, good. Well, then it probably went at least a little

better than the date Brian Giddest wrote about in his Modern Love column. And who better to bring

us a story of a romantic mishap than Judd Apatow, director of films like Train Rec, The 40-Year-Old

Virgin, and knocked up. Here's his reading of Brian's story titled, At the Hospital, An Interlude

of Clarity. There's never a good time to fall if your couch onto a martini glass,

nick a major blood vessel and begin losing a dangerous amount of blood. But having this happened

in the middle of a promising date isn't especially bad time. I demonstrated this last spring while

on my fourth date with a Brazilian woman so beautiful I was almost afraid of her. After dinner in a

homey Italian restaurant, we walked back to the apartment I had just moved into in Brooklyn.

Living in the city for the first time without roommates, I was eager to take advantage of my new

found privacy, and things were going well. There's something romantic about drinking from fancy

glasses in an unfernished room full of unpacked boxes, miles davises in a silent way, spun on the record

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