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

Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption. I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.

Nicole Carr seems like any other young mom, balancing career and family,

rushing from activity to activity and working to keep her marriage strong.

But Nicole has another challenge. Every day she sees her husband and her kids a little less.

Here's her Modern Love piece, Together Always in Darkness and in Light,

read by Tony Award-winning actress, Patina Miller.

There is no good way to tell a new guy in your life that you're going blind.

I chose the best of lousy options. I broke the news after sex and I packaged it right.

At 22, David was a novelist just starting his career and I knew if I framed my plight as

poetic, he'd find it irresistible, at least on an narrative level. So lying next to him in the

dark, I told the story like a gothic novel. I started with how three years earlier at 19,

I realized I couldn't see the stars at night.

This seemed like an innocent enough detail until it turned out to be the first symptom of an

incurable degenerative retinal disease. The doctor told me I would slowly lose my eyesight over

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