Kept Together By The Bars Between Us | With Cherry Jones

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.4 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Cherry Jones, the Tony, Emmy, and Obie-Award winning actor, reads a story about a woman who falls in love with a convicted murderer.

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0:43.3	From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:53.0	Stories of Love, loss and redemption.
0:57.0	I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.
1:05.5	It's not easy being in love with a convicted felon.
1:09.1	First, there's the separation.
1:11.4	Then there are the reactions and gasps you get from family and friends when they ask,
1:16.4	so what's he in for?
1:18.4	Amy Friedman never expected to find herself answering such questions, but soon these
1:23.4	questions and many more would shape her daily life.
1:27.3	Tony Award-winning actor, Cherry Jones, who you may have recently seen on the Amazon
1:31.6	series Transparent, brings us Amy Friedman's essay, kept together by the bars between us.
1:39.8	When we met, he had already served seven years of a 13 years to life sentence for murder.
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