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

Stories of Love, loss and redemption. I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.

Sometimes in life and in love, it's not about what someone says or does to us.

It's about how we respond. Laura Munson had to remind herself of this when her marriage experienced a plot twist.

Alicia Reiner brings us Laura's story. She's best known as Natalie Figueroa or FIG on the Netflix series Orange is the New Black.

She's also the star of Equity, a new movie about the women of Wall Street.

Here's Alicia reading Laura Munson's essay Those Aren't Fighting Words, dear.

Let's say you have what you believe to be a healthy marriage.

You're still friends and lovers after spending more than half of your lives together.

The dreams you set out to achieve in your 20s, gazing into each other's eyes and candlelit city beast rows

when you are single and skinny have for the most part come true.

Two decades later you have the 20 acres of land, the farmhouse, the children, the dogs and horses.

You're the parents you said you would be full of love and guidance. You've done it all.

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