Taking A Break For Friendship | With Sela Ward

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.4 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Sela Ward reads an essay about a beautiful relationship...or a friendship? Or a wanna-be friendship?

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0:43.9	From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:48.8	The story of love, loss, and redemption.
0:57.6	I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.
1:06.6	When she logged on to match.com, writer, Eleanor Lippman didn't know what to expect.
1:12.1	Internet dating wasn't even around when she'd met her first husband.
1:15.9	But no matter your age, dating is complicated.
1:20.6	Here's Emmy Award-winning actor, Seal Award.
1:23.0	You may know her from her roles in Gone Girl and the Fugitive,
1:26.5	reading Eleanor Lippman's essay, Taking a Break for Friendship.
1:31.9	At 59, I was a new widow, writing a novel about a new widow who was socially melodroid.
1:40.0	When her story started to stagnate, I knew I had to get her out of the house.
1:45.1	Me too, I signed us both up for match.com.
1:51.2	Dates followed. Not all were horrible, but the reporter in me liked the worst ones for their
1:57.1	anecdotal value. There was the man who stuck his nickeret gum under his seat.
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