Sharing A Cab, And My Toes | With Greta Gerwig

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.4 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Greta Gerwig ("Lady Bird") reads Julia Anne Miller's essay, about sharing an unusual cab ride in New York City.

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by...
0:10.0	From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:20.0	Stories of Love, loss and redemption.
0:24.0	I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.
0:30.0	The New York Times and WBUR Boston, WBUR Boston, WBUR Boston.
0:34.0	The New York Times and WBUR Boston, WBUR Boston, WBUR Boston.
0:42.0	As I rode in a cab across the Brooklyn Bridge, a man I barely knew was sucking my toes.
0:50.0	The lights of the bridge streaked overhead and Manhattan was a julled kingdom shrinking behind us in the darkness of the rearview mirror.
1:00.0	Sprawled in an awkward position, I felt weirdly detached from my foot.
1:08.0	That's Greta Gerwig, Director of Ladybird.
1:12.0	She's reading Julia Ann Miller's essay about sharing an unusual cab ride.
1:18.0	It's curious to watch someone engaged in an act of erotic passion and feel nothing.
1:24.0	Well, not exactly nothing.
1:28.0	I felt a faint thrill.
1:30.0	Not a physical arousal, but a stirring of my spirit of adventure.
1:36.0	A blur of light started the East River.
1:40.0	The wheels flew over the pavement and my body word through space.
1:44.0	This is it, I thought.
1:48.0	My life here has begun.
1:54.0	I had moved to New York in my late 30s in search of a more glamorous life.
2:00.0	What had brought me to this juncture?
2:04.0	Failure. A life shaped by safe choices.
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