Finding the Magic, Just in Time (Encore)

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Clare Cory was 59 years old and had been single almost her whole life. She thought her love story was over. Then everything changed.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Anna.
0:02.3	All right, today I want to bring back one of my favorite episodes.
0:05.6	We recorded this almost a year ago, and I still think about it all the time.
0:09.7	Make sure you listen all the way to the end because we've got a very sweet update for you.
0:15.4	Love now and all.
0:17.0	Love now.
0:18.0	Love was stronger than anything.
0:24.0	And I love you more than anything. Modern love.
0:24.8	There's to love.
0:25.6	Love.
0:26.2	Love.
0:29.3	From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
0:31.9	This is Modern Love.
0:33.6	Each week, we bring you stories inspired by the Modern Love column.
0:37.4	We talk about love, lust, heartbreak, and all the messiness of relationships.
0:43.6	When Claire Corey was a young girl growing up on a farm in Montana, she dreamed about falling in love.
0:50.4	We lived in a single-wide trailer. It was a little bit crowded.
0:53.6	So I slept on the couch,
0:56.0	and I would often look out the window at the full moon, and it's very beautiful.
1:02.4	And I would watch the moon sail across the sky, and me being the hopeless romantic child that I was,
1:07.9	I envisioned that somewhere out there under that same moon was the man for me.
1:13.6	Just after she graduated college, Claire got engaged, but then, right before the wedding, her fiancé called it off.
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