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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.

You can choose your significant other, but you can't choose your in-laws.

When free spirit artist Henderson first met her future mother-in-law, a conservative Christian,

they didn't exactly hit it off, but she never could have imagined the event that would bring them together.

Actor Constance Wu of the ABC hit series Fresh Off the Boat reads artist's essay,

Mary a Man Who Loves His Mother.

When Miles and I decided to live together, I asked him if his mother Terry would be upset.

We sat at the kitchen table in his apartment near Fort Rucker, Alabama,

while the warm fall evening pressed against the sliding glass doors.

Miles would graduate from flight school in a few months, and the army would be sending him to Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

My job in Tallahassee would be ending at the same time, and the move felt right to both of us.

Don't worry about it, he said.

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