Could We Try Again? | With Marcia Cross

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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If Meredith Hall had to point to the year that her life changed, she would probably say that it was 1965. She was sixteen that year, and pregnant with a son. But more than two decades later, in 1987, her life changed again -- and that's the year she writes about in her essay. It's read by Marcia Cross ("Desperate Housewives," "Quantico").

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by...
0:05.0	Produced by the Island at WBUR Boston.
0:18.0	From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:23.0	The New York Times
0:28.0	Stories of Love, Loss and Redemption.
0:32.0	I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.
0:41.0	If Modern Love author Meredith Hall had to point to the year that her life changed,
0:46.0	she would probably say that it was 1965.
0:49.0	She was 16 that year and pregnant with a son.
0:53.0	But more than two decades later, in 1987, her life changed again.
0:58.0	And that's the year she writes about in this week's essay.
1:01.0	It's read by Marsha Cross. Marsha is best known for her work in ABC's Desperate Housewives.
1:07.0	Most recently, she starred in ABC's Quantico and the YouTube Red series Youth and Consequences.
1:15.0	The call came in May.
1:18.0	Hello, the woman said.
1:21.0	My name is Anne Hurt.
1:23.0	I work with the New Hampshire Courts. I want you to sit down.
1:27.0	Your son is looking for you.
1:33.0	I have been hoping for this call for 21 years and it came like a dream into an ordinary spring day.
1:40.0	We will take this very slowly, she said.
1:43.0	This can cause enormous problems for both the child and the birth mother.
1:47.0	But I'm ready now. I've been waiting for years.
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