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From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.

The New York Times

Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption.

I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

All parents have dreams for their kids.

But what happens when your children have very different dreams for themselves?

Ronald Berger takes that question on in his essay,

I Saw a Playhouse, my daughter, saw a jail.

It's read by Brian Cox.

Brian plays Logan Roy in the HBO show Succession.

The

Broadway store to explore an environment where he cannot wreak as much havoc.

After a protracted and chaotic adolescence,

our younger daughter Anna has just begun her final year of college.

This boy with flax blonde hair and light blue eyes is her gift to the family she's been trying to flee for the last decade.

Toy cars, real trains, and mechanical objects of all size,

fascinated me.

He and I spend our time together exploring lumber yards, railroad depots,

and any highway department that possesses a road grader, an excavator, or a dump truck.

As we enter the hardware store, the middle-aged woman working in the cash register says,

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