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b'Ayad Akhtar\\u2019s parents met in Pakistan in the early \\u201960s, when they were both medical students and \\u201cridiculously attractive\\u201d \\u2014 or so their friends say. Despite having a love marriage (against the wishes of their parents), theirs was rocky from the start. \\n\\n\\u201cBy the time I was 4, I already knew my father had \\u2018other women,\\u2019 as my mother used to call them,\\u201d Ayad wrote in his Modern Love essay. But it wasn\\u2019t until years later, when Ayad was an adult, that his mother shared her own confession with him. \\n\\nToday, Ayad tells his story about seeing his mother in a new light. Then, we listen to a Tiny Love Story about a child who recognizes their parent for the very first time.\\n\\nAyad Akhtar, who received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is the author of the novel \\u201cHomeland Elegies\\u201d and the president of PEN America.'