Marriage Classes at Guantánamo
Modern Love
The New York Times
4.3 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Love now and... |
| 0:04.0 | Love, love, love. |
| 0:06.0 | Love is stronger than anything. |
| 0:08.0 | I feel the love, love. |
| 0:10.0 | And I love you more than anything. |
| 0:12.0 | I love you more than anything. |
| 0:14.0 | I love you more than anything. |
| 0:16.0 | From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin, |
| 0:18.0 | and this is Modern Love. |
| 0:20.0 | This week's essay is written by Mansour Adyfe. |
| 0:24.0 | It's about how Mansour nurtured hope |
| 0:27.0 | in a place designed to destroy it. |
| 0:31.0 | It's called Taking Marriage Class at Guantanamo, |
| 0:35.0 | and it's read by Eduardo Bellarini. |
| 0:37.0 | Until I was 35, the most significant relationship I'd had as an adult was with an iguana. |
| 0:51.0 | It wasn't easy to meet anyone where I was for all of my 20s |
| 0:56.0 | and nearly half of my 30s. |
| 0:58.0 | At the prison camp, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. |
| 1:02.0 | When I arrived, I was put in an isolation cell. |
| 1:08.0 | We're huge fans, blue day and night, |
| 1:11.0 | making deafening noise to prevent us from talking to each other. |
| 1:16.0 | Even when we went outside for recreation, |
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