This TED Talk features advocate and artist Jason B. Rosenthal, recorded live at TED 2018.

There are three words that explain why I am here.

They are Amy Krause Rosenthal.

At the end of Amy's life,

hyped up on morphine and home and hospice,

the New York Times published an article, she wrote,

for the Modern Love column on March 3, 2017.

It was read worldwide by over 5 million people.

The piece was unbearably sad,

ironically funny,

and brutally honest.

While it was certainly about our life together,

the focus of the piece was me.

It was called,

You May Want to Marry My Husband,

and was a creative play on a personal ad for me.

Amy quite literally left a empty space for me to fill

with another love story.

Amy was my wife for half my life.

She was my partner in raising three wonderful, now-grown children.

And really, she was my girl.

You know, we had so much in common.

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