We'll Meet Again In Five Years | With Regina King

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Regina King (HBO's "Watchmen") reads an essay by a woman who thinks she's met the right person for her — several years too early.

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by
0:04.0	Produced by the ILAB at WBUR Boston.
0:18.0	From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:24.0	Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption.
0:32.0	I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.
0:42.0	We all hope to meet the right person.
0:45.0	The thing is, that's not enough.
0:47.0	You've got to meet the right person at the right time.
0:51.0	Well, when she was in college, Karen Kaplan knew that, and she was worried that she'd met the person she wanted to end up with,
0:59.0	but met that person too early.
1:01.0	She writes about it in her essay, Let's Meet Again in 5 Years.
1:05.0	It's read by Regina King, who won an Academy Award last year for her performance in If Beale Street Could Talk.
1:11.0	She's starring in HBO's Watchmen, airing now on Sunday nights.
1:15.0	When I told Howard that we should meet again in 5 years to see if we were meant to be together, I thought I was just being practical.
1:28.0	My idea was less about romance than hedging our bets.
1:32.0	I was only 18 then, a freshman at Cornell, and he was barely 21.
1:38.0	We had dated since September, and now it was spring.
1:43.0	Soon, we would be headed back to opposite coasts,
1:46.0	heat of San Francisco and meet us at Bourbon, New Jersey.
1:51.0	The impending separation was forcing us to reevaluate.
1:58.0	Our dorm room conversation went something like this.
2:02.0	Me.
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