August 6, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Slunk Into Will’s Room and Under His Sheets’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Under His Canopy of Fish During our junior year of college, Will taped […]
May 19, 2021

Modern Love Podcast: She Left Me There

Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher “After touring the place, my grandmother seemed reluctant to leave. Finally, she bent down and said, […]
July 24, 2020

Why Did She Leave Me There?

The gate to the orphanage was smaller than I remembered. Nearly 25 years had passed since I lived there. I wondered if coming back was a […]
October 4, 2019

Going Back to China in Search of My Daughter’s Secret Past

Seven thousand miles was a long way to go for a tiny scrap of paper. The note was pinned to my daughter’s sweater when she was […]
November 2, 2017

Social Q’s: My Brother Is Adopted (He Didn’t Want Me to Tell You That)

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES For four years, my family’s Sunday breakfast routine has been quizzing each other about Social Q’s, so we’ve agreed to follow […]
August 11, 2017

Modern Love: Four Castaways Make a Family

Modern Love By RENE DENFELD “I think you’re just right for her,” my adoption caseworker said, showing me her picture in the foster-child bulletin. She was […]