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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 Chakrabardi.

How do you fall in love again after the loss?

How do you deal with the complicated, conflicting emotions that come from grieving one person

and also opening yourself up to loving someone else?

That's what Brendan Halpin explores in his essay.

It's called Dedicated to Two Women, only one of them alive.

It's read by Terry Cruz.

He stars in Brooklyn 9.9 on NBC.

My wife is about to die.

As I leave the hospice to pick up our daughter at school, I tell Kirsten I love her.

She is bald, gond, jaundiced, and slipping in and out of consciousness.

It takes a lot of effort for her to speak.

I love you, I tell her, and she surfaces briefly in croaks.

I love you too.

It's the last thing she will ever say to me.

I take our seven-year-old daughter, Rowan, from school to the hospice for a brief visit,

and later that night I go back alone and sit by Kirsten's bed with her parents and sister.

Kirsten is unconscious, rasping and moaning with every breath.

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