Finding the Magic, Just in Time

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.4 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When Clare Cory was a young girl, she dreamed of love. But by the time she turned 50, Clare hadn’t found it. Still, she took a look around and found she was happy and was looking forward to the future. Clare fell in love with life. She saw a flower bloom, watched sunlight sparkle on the water and held her cat on her lap. Her heart was full. Then, to her surprise, as Clare faced cancer and was about to turn 60, romance arrived. On today’s episode, Clare explains how she fell in love and began sharing her life at a time when she least expected. This episode is adapted from Clare’s Tiny Love Story from 2024, "Finally Finding ‘The Magic.'"

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0:00.0	Love now and...
0:03.4	From the New York.
0:04.1	Love was stronger than anything.
0:07.2	For the love, love.
0:08.5	And I love you more than anything.
0:11.5	You're still love.
0:12.5	Love.
0:15.6	From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
0:18.4	This is Modern Love.
0:20.0	Each week, we bring you stories inspired by the
0:22.4	Modern Love column. We talk about love, lust, heartbreak, and all the messiness of relationships.
0:30.1	When Claire Corey was a young girl growing up on a farm in Montana, she dreamed about falling in
0:36.0	love. We lived in a single-wide trailer.
0:38.8	It was a little bit crowded, so I slept on the couch,
0:42.6	and I would often look out the window at the full moon,
0:47.0	and it's very beautiful,
0:49.2	and I would watch the moon sail across the sky,
0:51.7	and me being the hopeless romantic child that I was, I
0:54.8	envisioned that somewhere out there under that same moon was the man for me.
1:00.3	Just after she graduated college, Claire got engaged. But then, right before the wedding,
1:08.1	her fiance called it off. After that, she spent years, decades even,
1:13.2	trying to make various relationships work.
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