In A Charmed Life, A Road Less Traveled | With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Modern Love
The New York Times
4.3 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Modern Love The Podcast is supported by |
| 0:04.0 | Produced by the Island at WBUR Boston |
| 0:18.0 | From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love |
| 0:24.0 | The New York Times and WBUR Boston |
| 0:28.0 | Stories of Love, Loss and Redemption |
| 0:32.0 | I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi |
| 0:40.0 | This week's essayist, Lang Martin Jr. |
| 0:44.0 | believes he lives a charmed life. |
| 0:47.0 | But one night in Virginia, 25 years ago, |
| 0:50.0 | that belief was tested. |
| 0:52.0 | Lang writes about what happened that night and afterward in his essay. |
| 0:56.0 | It's read by Nikolai Costa Waldau. |
| 0:59.0 | Nikolai has just been nominated for an Emmy award for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series |
| 1:04.0 | for playing Jamie Lannister in Game of Thrones. |
| 1:07.0 | My wife and I were in a motel in Roanoke, Virginia. |
| 1:11.0 | On our way home from three months at the Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania, |
| 1:15.0 | was she'd been recovering after being crippled in a car accident. |
| 1:20.0 | It was our first night away from the skill and comfort of the nurses we had come to depend on, |
| 1:25.0 | and so far so good. |
| 1:29.0 | Then we woke up and smelled something. |
| 1:33.0 | It smelled like a bowel movement. |
| 1:37.0 | I lifted up the sheets. |
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