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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.

When it comes to gestures of love, it's the thought that counts, right?

But sometimes a well-made gift is misinterpreted and a good deed gets punished, as it did for Ellen Urbani.

June Diane Rafeel, who plays Brianna Hanson in the Netflix series Grayson Frankie, reads Ellen's essay,

A Flower Delivery that brought more pain than pleasure.

With the best of intentions, I once did something regrettable.

I sent my younger sister's flowers.

The three of us have always been close.

When we reunited home, the images are everywhere, the matching ballet tutus dancing across the wall.

Our childhood selves captured on greeny slides that our parents project onto a tacked up sheet in the living room.

On point at the annual recital, arms raised.

I grazed my sister's shoulders with my fingers, conjoining us.

We touch and nearly every picture.

In a flash of light, we are repositioned as Catholic schoolgirls strolling hand in hand down the street.

Another flash, and we're younger still.

The two of them writing me like a pack mule.

Chubby hands nodded in the mane of my hair.

My red curls clashing with their straight brown locks.

Our hair was our primary distinguishing characteristic until I married young and spent my entire early adulthood with a man,

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