My Platonic Romance On The Psych Ward | With Miriam Shor

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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This week's essay is about a deep, enduring friendship that starts in an unlikely place. Jeannie Vanasco writes about her relationship with a woman named Anita in her essay, "My Platonic Romance on the Psych Ward." It's read by actress and director Miriam Shor, who stars in TV Land’s “Younger" and the upcoming Netflix film "Lost Girls."

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by
0:04.0	Produced by the Island at WBUR Boston.
0:18.0	From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:24.0	Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption.
0:32.0	I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.
0:42.0	Today's essay is about making friends in a really unusual place.
0:46.0	Jeannie Vanasco writes about her relationship with a woman named Anita in her essay
0:52.0	by Platonic Romance on the Psych Ward.
0:56.0	It's read by actor and director Miriam Shore, who stars in TV lands younger.
1:00.0	She's also appeared in the Americans, The Good Wife, and Jessica Jones.
1:08.0	Anita and I met five years ago as roommates at a hospital just outside of New York City.
1:14.0	According to the brochure in our patient intake folders,
1:18.0	the hospital's scenic grounds boasted rolling lawns, open meadows, forests, and a gazebo.
1:24.0	But why would we care about the landscaping?
1:28.0	The brochure reminded me of a commercial I had seen for Hulu while watching Hulu.
1:32.0	We didn't need an advertisement for the hospital.
1:36.0	We were locked inside.
1:40.0	I was 28, stuck in yet another manic episode, and yet another psychiatric ward.
1:46.0	Anita was 24, experiencing her first manic episode.
1:52.0	A lack of sleep had left her with purple crescent under her eyes.
1:58.0	We sat on our uncomfortable twin beds and shared stories that would make new roommates in most situations uncomfortable.
2:08.0	Anita told me that in the ambulance, she had suspected she was being driven to a secret location
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