Your Weirdest Dates

Modern Love

The New York Times

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

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

What’s the most unusual place you’ve ever been on a date? We asked Modern Love listeners and the responses did not disappoint. Rummaging through landfills, listening to cases in night court … the stories get weird. Plus, there’s one that our host, Anna Martin, considers the most bizarre of all (hint: dead bodies). For our last episode of 2022, we start with Dev Aujla’s essay about how he wound up traveling on a cargo ship across the Atlantic Ocean with a woman who, weeks earlier, had broken up with him at the advice of her astrologer. Then, we hear from all of you.

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0:00.0	Love now and...
0:04.0	You're falling love, man.
0:05.0	That's not what I love.
0:06.0	I love it.
0:07.0	It's stronger than anything.
0:08.0	I love it.
0:09.0	And I love you more than anything.
0:12.0	You're too much.
0:14.0	From The New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
0:17.0	This is Modern Love, and this is our last episode of the season.
0:21.0	And we're going to start it with you.
0:24.0	Hi!
0:25.0	Hi, hello.
0:26.0	We ask you to tell us the most unusual place you'd ever been on a day.
0:29.0	It was a first date.
0:30.0	And it felt weird.
0:31.0	And I got to say, you all delivered.
0:32.0	The 72-hour bus ride across the United States.
0:33.0	At Amarina for a memorial service.
0:34.0	For someone I didn't know.
0:35.0	At the top floor of the Watergate Hotel, out on this ledge, and we walked halfway around
0:38.0	the building.
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