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

Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption.

I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

We have an encore presentation for you this week and we're going back to one of our very first episodes of the podcast.

It's a story that explores mortality with the help of a resilient pet fish and it was brought to life by Jason Alexander.

You know him as George Costanza from the iconic 90s sitcom Seinfeld, but this performance shows another side of the versatile actor.

Here he is reading Dan Berry's essay, Just One Last Swirl Around the Bowl.

My daughter's stupid fish is dying.

She is coping with the news by making the necessary arrangements for a burial at sea via flush toilet.

To her, death is an unformed concept. She is 5 and 3 quarter years old.

I though am unnerved by the fish's approaching demise.

I gaze into the clear, round bowl, hoping for another performance of its darting dance of life.

Instead, I see only a creature as still as the ceramic mermaid it leans against, say for tiny gills that seem to be gasping.

This is crazy, I know.

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