We love hearing your stories of love, loss and redemption. This bonus episode features listener-submitted stories involving "leaps of faith."
Well, hello there.
It's Meghna Chakravarti, host of Modern Love, the podcast.
And I'm Anne Marie Sievertsen, one of the producers of modern love, along with Jessica Alpert and John Parotti.
Okay, except they're not in the studio with us.
They're over there.
We're looking at behind the glass mixing this.
Hi, guys.
They're waving back.
Anyway, we've got another bonus episode for you today.
And this is where we talk your stories of love, loss, and redemption.
And the theme for today's bonus episode is leaps of faith.
So this is in connection to the most recent episode of the podcast, a faithful Leap, which retold Kelly Thomas story.
And I don't want to totally give it away if you haven't heard it yet, but it involves some serious emotional and physical leaps.
Actor Amber Tamblyn read that one, and she really did an incredible job.
Here's a taste.
Midway through our second day, we stopped for gas at a roadside station in central Ohio, 2 hours south of our destination.
I asked my mother if she wanted me to drive, but she said she felt fine.
Still, I sensed her despondency.
Our excursion was coming to an end, and she could no longer pretend we were a couple of adolescents out on a lark.
I was going where she could never go.