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This is Love

On the Way to Dinner

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On August 28th, 2000, Danny Stewart got on the subway to meet his boyfriend Pete Mercurio for dinner in New York City. As he was exiting the station, he noticed something on the ground. It looked like a baby doll wrapped in a shirt. And then he saw the doll's legs move. Pete Mercurio's book is Our Subway Baby. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:30.0

On August 28, 2000, Danny Stewart and Pete MacCureo had plans to meet for dinner after work.

0:38.0

Danny was a 34-year-old social worker.

0:42.0

Pete was a 32-year-old social worker. Pete was a 32-year-old graphic designer.

0:45.7

They'd been together for a few years

0:47.9

and lived in Chelsea in New York City.

0:51.0

Danny was running late for dinner and hoped to catch an express train.

0:55.0

I was concerned that I was going to be late and I also was being very mindful like when Pete

0:59.9

gets hungry, he gets hungry and he so I was trying to be mindful so I wouldn't make

1:08.6

him hungry I wasn't able to time it to catch an express train so I stayed on the local the whole ride down.

1:16.5

I get out of the train and I get ready to leave and exit.

1:22.1

I'm going through the turnstile and I notice to my left against the wall on the ground a bundle which to me looked like a baby doll.

1:33.0

What I saw was two little legs sticking out of this dark shirt

1:39.0

that the doll was wrapped up in.

1:42.0

And I just thought to myself,

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