This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email transcripts@nytimes.com with any questions. anna martin Hey, everyone. It’s Anna. Before we start the show today, I want …
When we called my parents to tell them we were engaged, my father said to my mother, “Is she pregnant?” I was 41, so this was a reasonable question. But I wasn’t pregnant. I was dying. Troy and I got engaged one month before I received a terminal diagnosis. Getting …
This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email transcripts@nytimes.com with any questions. archived recording 1 Love now and always. archived recording 2 Did you fall in …
I met Jacob at an overcrowded Abba-themed dance night. He was wearing a faux-fur head wrap. He seemed so young. I was 33. Still, I thought he was cute. When we locked eyes on the smoking patio, I thought the feeling was mutual. We got to chatting. Jacob said he …
This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email transcripts@nytimes.com with any questions. archived recording 1 Love now and always. archived recording 2 Did you fall in …
In the Chili’s parking lot, I cradled two tiny blue pills in my palm. They were smooth like robin’s eggs, deceptively pretty to disguise their disgusting purpose. To take laxatives or not to take laxatives? That was the question. I tried not to during the week, when I woke early …
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Nearly four years ago, at our home in Zadar, Croatia, during what had been no more than ordinary bickering, my husband yelled unimaginable words: “You’ve been abusing me for 20 years!” The fight had started the previous night. He had snapped at our daughters for being their usual rambunctious selves …
This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email transcripts@nytimes.com with any questions. archived recording 1 Love now and always. archived recording 2 Did you fall in …
This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email transcripts@nytimes.com with any questions. archived recording 1 Love now and always. archived recording 2 Did you fall in …