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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 Chakrabardi.

The New York Times and WBUR Boston, the most famous film ever.

We all have it, to some extent.

But we don't usually unpack it on a first date.

Jillian Lauren found herself without much of a choice.

But where things went from there took her by surprise.

Taylor Schilling, best known as Piper Chapman on the Netflix series

Oranges the New Black, reads Jillian's essay,

Finding Marriage Without Losing A Self.

When I met Scott, I was somewhere between the before and after picture.

In a no man's land called Cosmetology School.

We went on our first date on a balmy night in the early fall of 2003.

I had met him the week before at a bowling party and he'd asked me what I did.

I go to beauty school.

Beauty school is hot, he said.

Beauty school is not hot, I said.

Anyone who thinks beauty school is hot is a pervert.

Scott was not deterred.

I'll show you, he said.

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