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

Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption.

I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

How do you talk to your children about loss?

What secrets do you decide to keep?

And for how long? And when do you decide to tell them everything?

Emily Listfield tells the story of how she faced those questions in her piece,

what the C took away, a daughter restores.

It's read by Carmen Ejogo.

She starred in Selma as Coretta Scott-King,

and you can see her in the new season of True Detective on HBO.

14 years ago, my husband vanished.

A talented sculptor whose work was in major collections.

He had been in a downward spiral for over a year.

Unable to finish a single piece of work,

tumbling into alcoholism, paralysed by depression.

After ten years of marriage, he moved into his studio in Lower Manhattan.

While I stayed in our nearby apartment with our five-year-old daughter, Sasha.

We spoke every day.

Often more honestly than we had in years.

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