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b'When Mike Rucker and his partner, John, moved in together, they purchased a sofa they affectionately named Miss Bee. \\u201cI didn\\u2019t just feel grown up buying this sofa, I felt sophisticated,\\u201d Mike wrote in his Modern Love essay. Miss Bee had low arms, wooden legs with brass wheels and a white denim slipcover. Miss Bee was not only a provider of comfort, but also the anchor of Mike and John\\u2019s home life. For our season premiere, we listen to Mike\\u2019s story about the process of saying goodbye to Miss Bee \\u2014 and the role she played for him in grieving John\\u2019s death. Then, Mike joins our host, Anna Martin, in the studio. He reflects on some of the other physical objects that continue to keep John alive for him.\\n\\nModern Love is back for the summer: For the next 10 weeks, we\\u2019ll be releasing episodes about love in all its messy, complicated forms \\u2014 including stories about star-crossed lovers in their 60s, the best nanny in all of New York City and an adoptee who overturns her assumptions about her mother. New episodes drop on Wednesday afternoons.'