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From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is a bonus episode of Modern Love.

I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

Amy Krauss-Rosenthal was known for her award-winning children's books, films, and her memoir in

Cyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. But she'll also be remembered for her Modern Love essay, which was

published in March. She wrote it just weeks before dying from ovarian cancer. Her essay became one

of the most shared pieces in the history of the column. Deborah Winger reads Amy's essay,

You May Want to Marry My Husband.

I've been trying to write this for a while, but the morathine and lack of juicy cheeseburgers,

what has it been now? Five weeks without real food? Have drained my energy and interfered with

whatever prose prowess remains. Additionally, the intermittent micron apps that keep whiskey

me away mid-sentence are clearly not propelling my work forward as quickly as I would like,

but they are admittedly a bit of trippy fun. Still, I have to stick with it because I'm facing a

deadline. In this case, a pressing one. I need to say this and say it right while I have

a. Your attention and b. A pulse.

I have been married to the most extraordinary man for 26 years. I was planning on at least another

26 together. Want to hear a sick joke? A husband and wife walk in in the emergency room in the

late evening on September 5, 2015. A few hours and tests later, the doctor clarifies that the

unusual pain the wife is feeling on her right side isn't the no biggie appendicitis they suspected,

but rather ovarian cancer. As a couple heads home in the early morning of September 6,

somehow through the foggy shock of it all, they make the connection that today, the day they

learned what had been festering, is also the day they would have officially kicked off their

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