When Your Greatest Romance Is A Friendship | Encore

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Ali Fazal ("Victoria and Abul") tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a man and his elderly neighbor. This is an encore presentation.

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0:00.0	Modern Love The Podcast is supported by...
0:04.0	Produced by the iLap at WBUR Boston.
0:19.0	From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.
0:27.0	Stories of Love, Loss and Redemption.
0:33.0	I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.
0:41.0	Last week, we released an episode featuring actress Gugu Umbhata Ra,
0:46.0	reading Oliver Radcliffe's essay, recognizing what they had 20 years too late.
0:52.0	In that episode, Oliver talked about being inspired by another Modern Love Podcast episode.
0:57.0	The one where actor Ali Fuzzle, read Victor LaDotto's essay,
1:01.0	When Your Greatest Romance Is A Friendship.
1:04.0	We wanted to revisit that episode this week, and here it is.
1:09.0	Is this your grandson?
1:11.0	People sometimes ask Austin when she's out with me.
1:16.0	I love watching her vanity prick up the way she tells her small white head
1:20.0	and brings out her southern accent to correct them.
1:23.0	No, honey, he's my friend.
1:27.0	At this point, folks usually smile tightly and turn away.
1:31.0	Perhaps, what if there's more than friendship going on between the old lady
1:35.0	and the younger man seated at the bar
1:38.0	or strolling through the supermarket, giggling like teenagers?
1:43.0	Why were giggling? I couldn't tell you.
1:47.0	Often our moth seems fueled by some deep delight at being together.
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