Thanks For Being Here Alec's Love Letter to Christy

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Kelly’s friend Alec Guettel wrote this fabulous love letter to his wife Christy when they were forced to be apart by his work project in London. It details the trials and tribulations he might have faced had they been kept apart 300 years ago - and what he might have done.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to thanks for being here a short weekly pod to remind us of the many essential
0:06.1	and beautiful ways we affect one another. Every Sunday I'll read a submission from a listener
0:12.4	of Kelly Corrigan Wonders, could be wedding vows or about mitzvah toast, a eulogy, or retirement speech.
0:18.8	We believe this is probably the loveliest way to tap into our better selves and remember
0:24.4	our highest values. We encourage you to share this podcast each week with one person you love,
0:30.3	maybe someone you miss and need to bring closer, someone you want to feel your appreciation or admiration
0:36.5	or both. This is thanks for being here.
0:46.8	Today's thanks for being here was written by one of my all-time favorite people on planet
0:51.4	Earth, his name is Alec Gettle, and in 2010 he was traveling back and forth from the US to London
0:57.6	for a work project that went on a long time. It involved many delayed and canceled flights,
1:04.1	and he was constantly apologizing every time he had to pack his bags and leave home again.
1:10.5	His wife is also one of my all-time favorite people, and this is the letter he sent to her.
1:16.2	I was just thinking how hard it would have been to get home from here to see you three hundred
1:23.4	years ago. First of all, it wasn't easy to get a booking on a transatlantic ship. They didn't
1:28.2	leave on set day, so you had to set up in a nearby public house and hope they remembered to call
1:32.3	you down to the pier on the right day. Those places were filled with bedbugs and people tossed
1:37.8	their excrement out the window. The whole city of London used to smell like a porta-party. They ate
1:43.0	a lot of stale bread. I would have been very itchy. Crime was far worse than today, of course,
1:48.8	and bathing in a public house was a significant risk because you were attempting target for thieves.
1:54.6	No way I would have risked losing my fare for the crossing, so no baths for me. Better to be
2:00.1	smelly, but solvent. There was no credit system, so if you didn't have the cash, you were marooned.
2:06.2	Embarking would have probably been the end of my money, because if they saw you really needed
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