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On this week’s podcast, we share the first of two readings from last month’s “Modern Love Live” in Toronto.

CreditBrian Rea

Andrew Rannells stepped up to share his own Modern Love story, published earlier this year, about a casual encounter that takes a serious turn.

Stay tuned after the reading for a conversation between Mr. Rannells and the Modern Love editor Dan Jones, where they discuss all the words in the essay’s first draft that weren’t fit to print.

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