Broken, Not Bound | With America Ferrera

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.4 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

America Ferrera reads the story of an African aid worker, and an event that drastically shifted her perspective.

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0:48.3	From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:58.0	Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption.
1:01.6	I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.
1:11.1	A moment in time. Sometimes, that's all it takes to shift a relationship, change a perspective,
1:18.6	alter a future. In this week's episode, we relive one of those moments with Golden Globe and
1:25.0	Emmy Award-winning actress America Ferreira, known for ABC's Ugly Betty and NBC's Superstore.
1:32.0	Fasten your seat belts as she reads Morrow Gordon's Modern Love essay,
1:36.2	Broken Not Bound by an Intimate Tie.
1:40.8	This guy wasn't right for me. He smoked cigarettes, his teeth were stained, his hair always looked
1:47.3	a little dirty, and he had a propensity for heavy drinking and offer cons cursing.
1:52.7	Yet, there I was. My calf touching his and the sticky heat as the bus hurtled through the
2:00.4	Tanzanian countryside. I told myself this was my adventure. The kind of story I could someday
2:07.5	tell my children to prove I once was brave and interesting.
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