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From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.

Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption.

I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.

For this holiday season, we're revisiting some of our favorite modern love essays that were adapted for the Modern Love television show.

Today, we're revisiting an essay by Eve Pell called The Race Gross Sweeter Near Its Final Lab.

It's the basis for episode eight of the Amazon show.

Singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter reads us Eve's story.

She's known for songs like Down at the Twist and Shout.

I feel lucky, and her rendition of Passionate Kisses.

Here she is with Eve Pell's essay, The Race Gross Sweeter Near Its Final Lab.

Sam and I dated for two years.

Then when I turned 70 and he 80, we had a joint 150th birthday party and announced our engagement.

We married a year later.

We came from very different backgrounds.

Sam, a Japanese American who had been interned in the camps during World War II, worked his way through college and was happily married to his Japanese American wife for more than 40 years.

I grew up as a fox hunting deputant whose colonial New York ancestors were lords of the manner of palim.

Typical of my much married family, I'd been divorced twice.

We belonged to the same San Francisco area running club.

He was a rarity, a charming, fit single man of 77.

I wanted to get to know him better.

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