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Modern Love

Love Means Never Having To Say ... Anything | With Pedro Pascal

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.39K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Love thrives on good communication. It can take many forms -- but what happens when you suddenly lose what was once your primary means of communication? Pedro Pascal ("King Lear," "Game of Thrones") reads Jamison's essay.

Transcript

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Modern Love The Podcast is supported by...

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Produced by the Island at WBUR Boston.

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

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The New York Times

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Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption.

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I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

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Love thrives on good communication.

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It can take many forms, but what happens when you suddenly lose

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what was once your primary means of communication?

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Jameson Hills essay, Love Means Never Having To Say Anything,

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takes up that question.

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It's read by Pedro Pascal.

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He plays Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones,

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and Javier Pena in Narcos.

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He's starring now in King Lear on Broadway

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and in the New Netflix movie, Triple Frontier.

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After dating Shannon for several months,

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I needed to say something to her, but I couldn't.

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It's not that I was nervous or unsure of the phrasing.

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It's that I couldn't speak.

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My lungs and larynx couldn't create the air pressure

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and vibrations needed to say the words floating around in my mind.

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