How I Lost the Fiancé But Won the Honeymoon

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Bored and in love, Nell Stevens found a hobby combing the internet and entering her name into online contests. But, when she actually wins a prize — a luxury honeymoon in India — her world falls apart: The man she thought she was going to marry breaks up with her. She decides to go on the trip anyway. On today’s show, the host Anna Martin talks with Nell about her fiancé-less honeymoon — and what she had discovered about herself by the time she returned home.

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0:00.0	Love now and to the far more, that's the line of love.
0:06.0	It's stronger than anything.
0:08.0	And I love you more than anything.
0:12.0	It's just love.
0:14.0	From The New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
0:18.0	This is Modern Love.
0:20.0	A few years ago, Nell Stevens, the author of today's essay, had a lot of time on her hands.
0:26.0	So she spent it entering giveaways online.
0:29.0	Everywhere there was a chance to win something for free on the internet.
0:33.0	Nell put down her name and email.
0:35.0	It was part distraction and part a long shot that her life might get better.
0:40.0	But just as Nell found out that she'd won the biggest, most extravagant prize she'd ever gone out for,
0:45.0	her life fell apart.
0:49.0	Nell Stevens, I'm so excited.
0:52.0	Welcome to Modern Love.
0:54.0	Thank you very much for having me.
0:56.0	Where are you coming to me from right now? Where are you?
0:59.0	So I am in the Cotswolds in the UK.
1:02.0	Okay, tell me about the Cotswolds a little bit. What does it look like where you are?
1:06.0	I don't know how this translates into an American scene.
1:10.0	In the UK, it would be the picture that your grandmother would give you on a greetings card,
1:14.0	would maybe be of the Cotswolds, like things that,
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