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From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.

The Podcast is supported by the I-Leb, at WBUR Boston.

Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption.

I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.

The hospital Pediatrics Wing is a place of illness and resilience, fear and healing.

Normally, families are there for purely medical reasons,

but for Thomas Hoeven, the hospital became a space for a different kind of recovery.

Jake Gyllenhaal recently starred in Spider-Man Far From Home.

He reads Tom's essay, Nursing a Wound in an Appropriate Setting.

I started my Pediatrics residency on the Cardiology Unit, which was appropriate.

My heart had a giant hole in it.

Just after I graduated from medical school, as I was moving into my fiance's New York apartment,

she ended our relationship.

We went out to dinner that night, and after we came home, she told me we were through.

She and I had been together 12 years, engaged for two.

We had a wedding plan for three weeks later.

I can't believe you're doing this.

I said from the edge of her bed.

I know we'll always be best friends, she said.

I left just after sunrise, suitcase in hand, feeling as if I had just fallen from a moving train.

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