Fractured Beauty | With Molly Ringwald

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.4 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Molly Ringwald reads an essay about a family vacation -- after divorce.

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0:45.3	From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:50.3	Stories of Love, loss and redemption.
0:59.1	I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.
1:07.6	Couple gets married. Couple gets divorced.
1:10.6	Couple doesn't spend time together anymore.
1:13.4	This is what most people expect from a divorce, right?
1:16.6	But how about drinks on the beach surrounded by laughing children?
1:21.4	This was Laura Basilond's reality when she decided to go on a family vacation with her ex-husband.
1:28.4	Molly Ringwald reads us Laura Basilond's essay from divorce, a fractured beauty.
1:39.5	Happy families are not all alike.
1:42.8	Picture this one. A mother and father sit on a beach on the 4th of July with their two children,
1:48.6	a boy, six, and a girl, four.
1:52.7	The parents are just on the other side of 40.
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