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

The New York Times

Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption.

I'm your host, Megna Chakra Bardy.

You know how it goes? A story makes headlines, and for a while you hear about it constantly.

But then, gradually, the spotlight fades, and those names and faces that were once everywhere, suddenly, they're gone.

You rarely get to hear the rest of their story, the story behind the story, but Josh Fatal shared his with Modern Love.

Here's Joshua Jackson, best known for roles in Showtime's The Affair and the 90s hit Dawson's Creek, reading Josh's piece, reaching out between the bars.

Jenny showed up to my Welcome Home Party in Philadelphia. Hundreds attended, but my eyes kept finding their way back to hers.

It had been three years since we'd seen each other, the last two of which I spent imprisoned, partly in solitary confinement, in Evan Prison and Terran Iran.

On that fateful day, more than 26 months earlier, I had been detained with my friends Shane Bauer and Sarah Shored, after we unknowingly hiked over an unmarked border of Iraqi Kurdistan into Iranian Kurdistan.

We were old college friends, vacationing in that relatively safe region between work assignments abroad, and the locals had told us about a beautiful waterfall in the mountains that would make for a suitable day hike.

Our mistake was continuing past the waterfall to the ridge line for the view, where an armed Iranian border guard spotted us and motioned us down to him.

First, he took us to his border outpost, and then we were loaded into a car and whisked away.

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