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Death, Sex & Money

Newlywed and Paralyzed

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Three weeks after Rachel Swidenbank and Hiroki Takeuchi got married, an accident changed everything.  Become a monthly sustaining member of Death, Sex & Money. Sign up now. Stay in touch! Sign up for Death, Sex & Money's weekly newsletter here: deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Follow the show on Twitter @deathsexmoney and Facebook at facebook.com/deathsexmoney. Email us any time at deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The amount of times I told him to be careful on that bloody bike. Like honestly, I used to say it all the time and it makes me mad to be like your carelessness has cost you so much and our relationship so much.

0:15.7

And you know it's one thing to blind side yourself but I blind side of Rachel as well.

0:28.0

This is death, sex, and money. Could you just skate, dad?

0:30.0

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more

0:37.2

We might be a make with Lula with really? That sounds pretty good. I'm Anna Sam I mean a sale.

0:43.0

When I talked to Rachel Swidden Bank and Heroke Taki Yuichi, they were sitting in

0:50.1

their apartment in London.

0:51.6

I was in California.

0:52.6

Okay, can you hear me now?

0:54.0

I can hear you now.

0:55.0

This is what I can find.

0:57.0

Yeah, this is great. Rachel and Heroki moved into this place last summer,

1:00.0

just before they got married in August.

1:02.0

Do you have wedding pictures in your apartment?

1:05.6

Yeah, we have one up on the wall. The two of us stood together outside the reception.

1:13.3

It's weird like I'm looking at it now and it's it does feel weird.

1:17.4

Well I actually found more difficult was the video we got video made

1:21.2

that I find even now watching it I find it really difficult

1:26.0

Before their wedding Rachel and Heroki had been together for 11 years they met his college students at Oxford

1:32.2

Literally like just flown out of my parents nest and then straight into Herrokee's arms basically is what happened.

1:39.0

They dated for 10 years before they got married.

1:42.0

Rachel was 29 and Hiroki was 30.

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