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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 Chakrabardi.

We have an encore presentation for you this week.

There's the old saying that the right person is worth waiting for,

but how can you know for sure what right even means?

And how long are you supposed to wait?

Hannah Celenger shared her story with Modern Love.

Here's Taisa Farmiga from the New Warren-Bady Film Rules Don't Apply, reading Hannah's essay,

Friends Without Benefits.

I met him when I was 22 and squandering a year of my life and liver quality,

working as a waitress in my Massachusetts hometown.

I was an Ivy League graduate who'd always had a plan, and suddenly I had no plan.

All my life I had been regimented, disciplined, and very, very good,

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