Season Premiere: Driveway Elegies

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This episode contains strong language. On the first episode of the new Modern Love podcast, we hear from two women who examine their lives through the contents of their homes — the car in the driveway, the stained teacups, the razor and shaving cream by the sink. Though easy to ignore, these everyday objects often tell a larger story. Featured stories:“Bye Bye ‘Family’ Minivan," Kyrie Robinson“Tracking the Demise of My Marriage on Google Maps,” Maggie Smith Maggie’s story was narrated by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. You can find more information on today's episode here.

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0:00.0	Hello, Kairi.
0:01.0	Hi, good morning.
0:02.0	Hi, good morning.
0:03.0	How are you doing?
0:04.0	I'm good.
0:05.0	How are you?
0:06.0	Doing pretty well.
0:07.0	Do you want me to read the title or just the body of it?
0:18.2	Maybe the title might as well.
0:20.2	Okay.
0:21.2	All right.
0:22.2	Whoops.
0:23.2	Bye-bye family minivan.
0:27.2	The family minivan that he said we needed but that I should buy for road trips to visit
0:33.4	his son in Los Angeles and his daughter in Santa Barbara and to take our two boys camping
0:39.4	and biking and skiing.
0:41.9	The family minivan that he encouraged me to purchase just the year before when he knew
0:46.6	what he was doing and with whom.
0:50.2	And so he knew that we were over doomed, but he was too afraid to say.
0:56.4	And for which I later blamed him every time I looked in my driveway.
1:01.9	That minivan has been sold.
1:09.2	What is your new car if I may ask?
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