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From the New York Times and WBU are Boston, this is Modern Love Live at the Wilbur Theatre.

I'm your host, Megyn Chakrabardi.

I'm your host, Megyn Chakrabardi.

Thank you!

And a very warm thank you to our musical guest, Hight.

Here they go, they're off the stage, performing tonight's theme song, our theme song from Modern Love.

We will hear more from her later in the show.

But first, Happy Valentine's Day.

I just want to make note, you'd all chose to be here tonight on Valentine's Day.

Now, whether you love Valentine's Day or dread it or ignore it every year, I think we can basically all agree that love itself is truly worth celebrating.

And that is what we're doing here tonight, right?

That was very half-hearted. We are celebrating love, right?

Much better.

Okay, so full disclosure, I am a Valentine's Day ignorer.

No, true.

I never actually did like this holiday, too manufactured, in my own life.

I'm most often confronted by the fundamental irrationality of love.

Not so much through my husband, he is a patient and balanced human being.

He's the balanced half of our relationship.

But I am confronted by the irrationality of love by my children.

So if their parents here, they're going to know what I'm talking about.

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