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Modern Love

The Wedding Toast | With Kathryn Hahn

Modern Love

The New York Times

Nytimes, Redemption, Society & Culture, New York Times, Love, Essay, Storytelling, Loss, Nyt

4.48.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Kathryn Hahn reads a story about a fantasy wedding toast -- and why it will never be delivered.

Transcript

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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is modern love.

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Stories of love, loss, and redemption.

0:53.8

I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

1:00.3

Ada Calhoun does not like to mince words.

1:05.8

In her modern love essay, The Wedding Toast I'll Never Give,

1:09.8

she lifts her glass to the true challenges of marriage.

1:13.4

Actor Catherine Hahn of the Amazon series Transparent and Recent Comedy Bad Moms reads us this week's essay.

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While away at a conference in Minneapolis, I was awakened at dawn by a call from my husband

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in our New York apartment.

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Our eight-year-old son had just roused him with a suspicion that they might not make

1:37.8

their 730AM flight to join me because it was now 740 and they were still at home.

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The original plan had us all traveling to Minneapolis together.

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I would attend my conference.

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