Sarah Paulson narrates this week's episode -- a story about a woman's decision to put up her child for an open adoption.
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From the New York Times and WBur, Boston, this is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
There's one thing that just about every parent I've ever known has said, and I'm including myself here, one same thing.
At some point in time, even while we're in the middle of complaining about our kids, someone always stops and says, but I just cannot imagine my life without them.
Sometimes, though, thats exactly what happenssometimes because a parent makes a choice.
Its never easy and always complicated, as Amy Sieck shares in her brave modern love essay, open adoption not so simple math, read by actor Sarah Paulson.
I wanted my son to become the kind of person who appreciates the beauty of the world around him, so I smiled when, at six, he asked to borrow my camera in case he saw something beautiful.
We were taking a walk in the woods outside Boston and following behind him.
I was surprised by how much he moved like his.
We spent that afternoon showing each other icicles and hollow trees, breaking frozen patterns in the river, ice, inching too close to the water to get a better view of the bridge above.