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

The New York Times

Stories of love, loss, and redemption.

I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

Two years ago, on Valentine's Day, Amy Kraus-Rosenthal finished writing an essay

that would eventually be published in the Modern Love column.

It was called, You May Want to Marry My Husband.

Just 10 days after the piece came out, Amy died from a variant cancer.

Her essay became one of the most widely read in the history of the column.

This past summer, her husband Jason wrote his own piece in response.

We'll hear that next week.

But today, here's Deborah Winger, reading Amy's original essay, You May Want to Marry My Husband.

I've been trying to write this for a while, but the morphine and lack of juicy cheeseburgers, what has it been now?

Five weeks without real food?

Have drained my energy and interfered with whatever prose prowess remains?

Additionally, the intermittent micronaps that keep whisky me away mid-sentence are clearly not propelling my work forward as quickly as I would like.

But they are admittedly a bit of trippy fun.

Still, I have to stick with it because I'm facing a deadline, in this case, oppressing one.

I need to say this and say it right while I have A, your attention, and B, a pulse.

I have been married to the most extraordinary man for 26 years.

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