介绍： Modern Love是《纽约时报》最受欢迎的专栏之一，刊登的是读者投稿的真实情感故事。

从两年前开始，《纽约时报》和波士顿公共广播WBUR合作，推出了同名的播客节目。每期的节目都会挑选一篇专栏文章，邀请明星嘉宾朗读，并回访作者，请他们分享后续的故事。该节目绝对是良心之作，故事简短丰富，明星嘉宾的朗读丰满贴切，后续的回访分享...

介绍： Modern Love是《纽约时报》最受欢迎的专栏之一，刊登的是读者投稿的真实情感故事。

从两年前开始，《纽约时报》和波士顿公共广播WBUR合作，推出了同名的播客节目。每期的节目都会挑选一篇专栏文章，邀请明星嘉宾朗读，并回访作者，请他们分享后续的故事。该节目绝对是良心之作，故事简短丰富，明星嘉宾的朗读丰满贴切，后续的回访分享也是耐人寻味，能让人产生情感共鸣。

本电台将会持续给大家更新节目的音频和文本。

以下是本期节目的部分文本：

007 | Live Without Me. I’ll Understand.

WE are flying to a resort south of Cancún for the wedding of my husband’s cousin. As we rise into the cloudless Los Angeles sky, I try, as always, to suppress my unease. I have always been afraid of flying, but today I am tired enough to doze off as we make our way south. I wake briefly to refuse the beverage service and then settle back to sleep.

Just over an hour into the flight there is a slight bump followed by a distinct click as overhead panels fall open and the oxygen masks unfurl. Then the plane begins to plunge.

“This is an emergency,” the captain announces. His English is accented, but perfectly clear. “Please put on your oxygen mask and fasten seat belts. This is an emergency.”

I look pleadingly at my husband of six months.

“It’s O.K.,” he says, just as he has on so many other flights when I panicked at an unfamiliar noise or dip. “We’re going to be O.K.”

But this time is different. The plane is racing downward, my seat belt pulling taut against my lap. My mind fumbles to assemble a picture of what is happening, but each piece of information seems disconnected, absurd. The cabin is eerily quiet, as if there is not enough air for noise. Shouldn’t someone be screaming?

I think I hear a muffled sob, but I cannot look at the other passengers. The flight attendants, doubled against gravity, pull themselves up the aisles by the armrests, bent over like mountain climbers, one holding an oxygen mask to her face, the man behind her cradling the portable tank in his arm.

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