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This is Love

The Run

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In 1971, David Alexander went for a run in Central Park and started talking to a stranger. For our first episode of This Is Love, a story about what's possible when we bet everything on each other. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:31.3

Hi, my name is David Alexander. I grew up in Brooklyn and I'm here to answer a few

0:39.3

questions and tell my story. One day in the early 70s, David Alexander decided to go for a run in Central Park.

0:50.0

And so I drove up there and parked the car and walked down in the meadow still holding my key ring, my big key ring and I wanted to put it to put it down and there I saw Jesse sitting on a blanket a Wednesday afternoon in the spring.

1:18.7

And she had the Times Sunday to Arts and Leisure section, a bottle of water, a sketch pad, and she had a men's hat with a ribbon tipped to one side.

1:36.1

And I said, ah, perfect.

1:39.0

May I leave my keys here?

1:41.4

While I go front? Sure, she said.

1:45.0

And so I was gone for 15 minutes and came back.

1:51.0

And we had a natural conversation and I sat down and then some time went by and I offered her a ride home and which she accepted.

2:07.0

It was a different time in New York then. Will you describe what she looked like? 5 foot 8 straight posture at the time had long hair and green eyes, athletic and slender, not really slender, muscular slender.

2:57.0

And she had a face that was full of character and was both smart looking and

3:07.0

was both the smart looking and lovely and I asked her for a date. I said,

3:18.1

would you like to go to the ballet? That's quite a, that's a great first state to pull out.

3:24.0

It was the Joffrey Ballet at Lincoln Center.

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