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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 Chacrabardi.

90 days may seem like a passing phase, but for Brook Reinhart, it was the amount of time when her beautiful life,

marriage, new house, and plans to start a family, all came to a complete stop.

Anna Klumski stars in the hit HBO comedy VEEP now in its final season.

She reads us Brook's essay, Sharing the Shame, After My Arrest.

We had been married for just over a year when the FBI showed up at our house at 6am and arrested me.

They arrested my husband too, although at the time that seemed beside the point.

A stickler for rules who had never even gotten a speeding ticket.

I was handcuffed in my mismatched pajamas and hauled away.

My teeth weren't even brushed.

The charges against me, against us both, were wire fraud and conspiracy to commit male fraud.

In a state of shock, I began babbling to the FBI agents that I would never open mail that wasn't addressed to me.

Never, ever.

If only it were that simple.

When the indictment was unsealed, I learned that my dear husband had, in the simplest terms,

used my identity to embezzle tens of thousands of dollars from his workplace, among other crimes.

His using my identity made it look as if I was involved.

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