The Boy Who Makes Waves | With Mykelti Williamson
Modern Love
The New York Times
4.4 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Modern Love The Podcast is supported by... |
| 0:11.0 | From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love. |
| 0:21.0 | Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi. |
| 0:31.0 | The New York Times and WBUR Boston, |
| 0:33.0 | Joy, stress, resilience, self-doubt. |
| 0:38.0 | Joe Blair has experienced an extreme range of parental emotion with Michael, his autistic son. |
| 0:45.0 | Actor Michael T. Williamson, who played Bubba in Forest Gump and most recently Gabriel in the Oscar-nominated film Fences, |
| 0:52.0 | reads Joe Blair's essay for the boy who makes waves. |
| 0:58.0 | Perspective buyers must wonder about the hard-packed runway of dirt in our backyard where grass won't grow, |
| 1:03.0 | and the hasp in the padlock on the refrigerator, |
| 1:06.0 | and... |
| 1:08.0 | Well, they must wonder why the gate on our six-foot-high picket fence is permanently bolted shut. |
| 1:13.0 | Deb and I hardly think about these things. |
| 1:17.0 | We've been with Michael for 11 years. |
| 1:20.0 | There are two runways inside the fence. |
| 1:23.0 | One trace is the edge of the house. |
| 1:26.0 | The dog made this one. |
| 1:28.0 | He sprints from window to window, tracking my location. |
| 1:32.0 | Am I in the kitchen? |
| 1:34.0 | Leaving the kitchen. |
| 1:36.0 | Walking to the living room. |
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