Modern Love

Love breaks all the rules. Each episode of this anthology series brings to life different stories of relationships, connections, betrayals and revelations — all inspired by true events.

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  E1On a Serpentine Road, With the Top Down

  Aug 12, 2021· 36m

  "Driving, with the top down, I’m reminded that I too can shift gears, face risk, handle inconvenience — and survive tragedy. My partner, eyes misting, says: 'You love that car. And your husband was an extraordinary man.'"

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  E2The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy

  Aug 12, 2021· 36m

  "I'm a vampire, basically — going to bed around 8 or 9 a.m. and waking around 4 or 5 p.m. First dates usually go OK because they’re in the evening, but complications quickly arise."

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  E3Strangers on a (Dublin) Train

  Aug 12, 2021· 36m

  "We met on a train. A perfect, flirtatious, six hours. The beginning of our love story? Trusting in the power of the universe, we hadn’t exchanged mobile numbers. Sometimes, a romantic plan isn’t enough."

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  E4A Life Plan for Two, Followed By One

  Aug 12, 2021· 35m

  "He was everything a 10-year-old girl could ever hope for in a man. It was decided; I was in love. I started to wonder if the glow from my wedding dress would make him look washed-out. I began devising a plan in which he and I would end up '2gether 4ever,' as all my notebooks stated."

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  E5Am I ...? Maybe This Quiz Will Tell Me

  Aug 12, 2021· 34m

  "In retrospect, maybe I should have known who I was the first time I went looking for a quiz called 'Am I gay?' But I didn’t."

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  E6In the Waiting Room of Estranged Spouses

  Aug 12, 2021· 31m

  "A few months later, I was in the psychologist’s reception room, paying for my fourth really good cry, when a woman carrying a child walked in. I didn’t recognize her at first, and then I remembered her face. 'Are you the wife of the guy my wife is having an affair with?' I asked tactlessly. 'Yeah,' she said. 'But we’re not together anymore.'"

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  E7How Do You Remember Me?

  Aug 12, 2021· 25m

  "I don’t remember his last name. He was handsome, with a nice smile and startlingly blue eyes. The sex was good, I think. We didn’t know each other well. We never would."

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  E8A Second Embrace, with Hearts and Eyes OpenFinale

  Aug 12, 2021· 35m

  "On this night, long after we had thrown in the towel on us, here we were again, crawling back into the ring. This time, though, it would be different. We just never imagined how different it would become, or how quickly."

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  E1When the Doorman Is Your Main Man

  Oct 18, 2019· 33m

  “Ours was a common and unsung friendship, that between women living in New York, single and alone, and the doormen who take care of them, acting as gatekeepers, bodyguards, confidants and father figures.”

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  E2When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist

  Oct 18, 2019· 32m

  “I tossed out one last question: ‘Have you ever been in love?’ No one, he said, had ever asked him that in an interview. ‘Yes,’ he finally answered. ‘But I didn’t realize it until it was too late.’ Then he asked me to turn off my recorder. I hit Stop."

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  E3Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am

  Oct 18, 2019· 35m

  “My personal life was another story. In love there’s no hiding: You have to let someone know who you are, but I didn’t have a clue who I was from one moment to the next.”

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  E4Rallying to Keep the Game Alive

  Oct 18, 2019· 30m

  “We rallied, not with the adrenaline-pumping determination to win at all costs, but with the patience and control that came with not wanting it to be over: not the summer, not our son’s childhood, not this game, ever.”

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  E5At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity

  Oct 18, 2019· 33m

  “There is never a good time to fall off your couch onto a martini glass and begin losing a dangerous amount of blood, but having this happen in the middle of a promising date is an especially bad time.”

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  E6So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?

  Oct 18, 2019· 31m

  “He was very handsome. He wore gray turtleneck sweaters and smelled like mint aftershave and old books. He was 55 and recently divorced for the second time. He was my father. He wasn't really my father.”

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  E7Hers Was a World of One

  Oct 18, 2019· 36m

  “There was no guarantee that doing an open adoption would get us a baby any faster… in fact, our agency warned us that, as a gay male couple, we might be in for a long wait.”

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  E8The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final LapFinale

  Oct 18, 2019· 30m

  “Old love is different. In our 70s and 80s, we had been through enough of life’s ups and downs to know who we were, and we had learned to compromise. The finish line was drawing closer.”