Missing A Father I Hardly Knew | With Willem Dafoe

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.4 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Willem Dafoe ("The Florida Project") reads Bruce Eric Kaplan's essay, about waiting for a hilarious secret to be revealed.

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by...
0:05.0	Produced by the Island at WBUR Boston.
0:18.0	From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:25.0	The New York Times
0:28.0	Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption
0:32.0	I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.
0:41.0	What do you do when the clock runs out on a relationship?
0:44.0	When there's no more time left to ask the questions you need answered?
0:49.0	That's what Bruce Eric Kaplan sorts through in his essay,
0:52.0	Missing a Father I Hardly New.
0:55.0	Willem DeFoe, who was recently nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the Florida Project, reads Bruce's piece.
1:06.0	The psychic started to laugh.
1:09.0	What, I said?
1:11.0	After your father dies, she said,
1:13.0	You're going to find out something about him.
1:17.0	Something hilarious.
1:19.0	Wow.
1:20.0	What?
1:21.0	They aren't saying, but apparently it's really funny.
1:25.0	It's been going on for a while.
1:27.0	Is it going on right now?
1:29.0	Definitely.
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