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Heart First

Season 9 Episode 19 | 30s

We’re taught to protect the heart – until love asks us to lead with it. Paul Kandarian meets an unexpected grandchild and watches fear get overruled by love; Jane Condon takes her marriage proposal into her own hands when she meets the man of her dreams; and David Hacin follows a chance encounter and a stormy taxi ride towards the love and life waiting for him in Boston.

Stories from the Stage is a collaboration of WORLD and GBH.
Extras
Truth can be more unbelievable than anything imagined.
Sometimes, determination calls for creativity.
The path to – and through – motherhood is rarely a straight line.
Sometimes what guides us most feels as natural as breathing.
Not all gifts come neatly wrapped or arrive when we expect them.
Love is rarely simple, and it almost never looks the way we imagine it will.
What is home? A house filled with memory? A country we long for? A person we can’t live without?
Life delivers moments that are so strange, so charged, they linger long after they’ve passed.
What does it mean to find home? Is it lost family? A chosen community? Or living your own truth?
Love sends us leaping before we look, saying yes while ignoring any red flags waving in the wind.
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We’re taught to protect the heart – until love asks us to lead with it.
Truth can be more unbelievable than anything imagined.
Sometimes, determination calls for creativity.
The path to – and through – motherhood is rarely a straight line.
Sometimes what guides us most feels as natural as breathing.
Not all gifts come neatly wrapped or arrive when we expect them.
Love is rarely simple, and it almost never looks the way we imagine it will.
What is home? A house filled with memory? A country we long for? A person we can’t live without?
Life delivers moments that are so strange, so charged, they linger long after they’ve passed.
What does it mean to find home? Is it lost family? A chosen community? Or living your own truth?