Jason Alexander narrates this story about a man projecting his deepest thoughts of mortality onto his pet fish.
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From the New York Times and WBUR, Boston this is modern love stories of love, loss, redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
We all project our issues right onto our friends, our family, coworkers.
Well, this story makes me think that we project our deepest and most complex emotions onto our pets.
The story is brought to life by Jason Alexander.
You know him as George Costanza from the iconic nineties sitcom Seinfeld.
Going to hear another side of the versatile actor?
Here's his reading of Dan Barry's modern love piece, just one last swirl around the bowl.
My daughter's stupid fish is dying.
She is coping with the news by making the necessary arrangements for a burial at sea via flushed toilet.
To her death is an unformed concept of she is five and three quarter years old.