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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 Chacrabardi.

Have you ever been on a vacation that's supposed to be perfect?

But then you have a moment where you just cannot stand the person you're with.

When Patricia Morris-Rowe and her husband went to England together, they had one of those experiences.

And she writes about it in her essay, Another Voice Had Come Between Us.

It's read by Catherine O'Hara, who stars in Schitt's Creek.

It airs on Wednesdays at 10pm on Pop TV. You can also find it on Netflix.

On a romantic trip through the English countryside, my husband fell in love with another woman.

He met her at a car rental agency on the Outskirts of London, where she arrived with the upgrade package.

Nervous about driving on the opposite side of the road, he was eager to pay for her escort services.

And before I knew it, she was with me in the front seat.

By the time we had reached the first motorway, I was ready to toss her from the car.

But as the voice of our GPS unit, she'd cleverly embedded herself in it.

My husband nicknamed her Emma after Mrs. Emma Peel, the beautiful spy in the TV show The Avengers.

With her genius IQ and martial arts ability, Mrs. Peel was a feminist superhero, racing around England and a sexy lotus-a-land convertible.

The new Emma navigated a more mundane Audi, but with 32 satellites at her disposal, she was a whiz of directions.

When she uttered your route guidance, we'll now begin. You knew you were incapable of hands, even if she didn't have any.

The only time we took a wrong turn, we wound up at a spectacular hidden garden that my husband proclaimed his favorite spot on the entire trip.

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