Part II: My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me | With André Holland

Modern Love

The New York Times

Love, New York Times, Nytimes, Essay, Loss, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Redemption, Nyt

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Last week, you heard an essay by Amy Krouse Rosenthal -- "You May Want to Marry my Husband." It was published just days before she died of ovarian cancer. Today, André Holland of "High Flying Bird" reads the essay her husband Jason wrote in response last summer, and we hear from Jason himself about how he's doing today.

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by...
0:05.0	Produced by the Island at WBUR Boston.
0:18.0	From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:23.0	The New York Times
0:28.0	Stories of Love, Loss and Redemption.
0:32.0	I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.
0:41.0	Last week, you heard an essay by Amy Kraus-Rosenthal.
0:44.0	It was called, You May Want to Marry My Husband.
0:48.0	The essay was published just days before Amy died of a variant cancer.
0:52.0	This past summer, her husband Jason wrote his own Modern Love essay, called,
0:57.0	My wife said, You May Want to Marry My.
1:00.0	It's read by Andre Holland.
1:02.0	He's the executive producer and star of High Flying Bird,
1:05.0	now on Netflix and in select theaters.
1:10.0	I am that guy.
1:14.0	A little over a year ago, My wife, Amy Kraus-Rosenthal,
1:19.0	published a Modern Love essay called, You May Want to Marry My Husband.
1:25.0	At 51, Amy was dying from a variant cancer.
1:30.0	She wrote her essay in the form of a personal ad.
1:34.0	It was more like a love letter to me.
1:37.0	Those words would be the final ones Amy published.
1:41.0	She died 10 days later.
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