When Cupid Is A Prying Journalist | With Susan Kelechi Watson

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Susan Kelechi Watson (NBC's "This Is Us," "A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood") reads Deborah Copaken's essay about how a lost love leads to an unexpected connection years later.

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by
0:05.0	Produced by the Island at WBUR Boston
0:18.0	From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love
0:23.0	The New York Times
0:28.0	Stories of Love, Lost, and Redemption
0:31.0	I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi
0:40.0	It's hard not to dwell on missed connections
0:43.0	On the moments when life goes one way
0:46.0	when it could so easily have gone another
0:48.0	And by the idea that something as small
0:51.0	as a lost piece of paper could alter the course of a life
0:55.0	Debra Copacan's essay
0:57.0	When Cupid is a Prying Journalist
0:59.0	is about one of those missed connections
1:01.0	It's read by Susan Coletchi Watson
1:04.0	She stars in the NBC show This Is Us
1:08.0	My interview with Justin MacLeod was winding down
1:11.0	when I tossed out one last question
1:13.0	Have you ever been in love?
1:15.0	The baby-faced chief executive had designed hinge
1:19.0	which was a new dating app
1:21.0	My question was an obvious throwaway
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