Friends Without Benefits | With Taissa Farmiga

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.4 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Taissa Farmiga reads a story about "friends without benefits" who spend years circling each other without defining their drawn-out, nebulous relationship.

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0:47.0	From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:54.0	Stories of Love, loss and redemption.
1:00.0	I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.
1:10.0	The right person is worth waiting for, but how do you know who the right one is?
1:16.0	And how long are you supposed to wait?
1:19.0	Sometimes you just have to live and learn as Hannah Sellinger can attest.
1:24.0	Here's Taisa Farmiga known for roles in FX's American Horror Story and the film The Bling Ring,
1:31.0	reading Hannah's essay Friends Without Benefits.
1:35.0	I met him when I was 22 and squandering a year of my life and liver quality,
1:40.0	working as a waitress in my Massachusetts hometown.
1:43.0	I was an Ivy League graduate who'd always had a plan, and suddenly I had no plan.
1:49.0	All my life I had been regimented, disciplined and very, very good,
1:53.0	but I didn't want to be that girl in the front row raising my hand with the right answers anymore.
1:58.0	So I traded in my sharpened pencils for an apron and a pair of clogs,
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