
After her aunt died by suicide, a woman is given the opportunity to have a conversation that could be either cathartic or further devastating.
“In my head, David Schwimmer always said exactly the right thing. What if a real-life conversation didn’t measure up? Was it worth the risk? As strange as it sounds, there was a lot at stake,” Samantha Joseph writes in this week’s Modern Love essay.
Find out how her imagined conversation with the actor from “Friends” unfolded in real life.
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