Author Read: My Sweaty Revenge

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Christi Clancy reads her Modern Love essay, “Revenge of the Friend." To hear our conversation with Christi, listen to the episode: “My Sweaty Revenge.”

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0:00.0	Love now and
0:04.0	and all.
0:05.0	The first that I love.
0:06.0	The love was stronger than anything.
0:08.0	I feel love and love.
0:09.0	And I love you more than anything.
0:12.0	They're still love.
0:14.0	From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
0:18.0	This is Modern Love.
0:20.0	And today, Christy Clancy's Full Modern Love essay.
0:24.0	Christy is a spin instructor.
0:26.5	And one weekend she was teaching her class, just like every other weekend,
0:29.5	when in walk someone who she was not prepared to see, her best friend's ex-husband.
0:36.8	He left her best friend for another woman causing a ton of pain.
0:40.9	Chris D decided to punish this guy in the best way she knew how by putting him
0:46.4	through the hardest workout of his life. Here's Christie reading her essay, Revenge of the Friend. They kissed. Nobody kisses in spin class. A room full of sweaty people panting on
1:19.2	top of steel bikes is no place for romance and it's certainly no place for my friend's ex-husband
1:25.8	to show up with his girlfriend, the woman he'd left my friend for.
1:30.8	It was just a few weeks into the new year and I had a packed class of weekend warriors perched on their
1:36.2	saddles waiting for me.
1:38.6	My friend's ex-husband was the last person I expected to see.
1:45.0	In the two years since they had split up, I had gone out of my way to avoid him.
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