This Senator Saved My Love Life
Publisher |
WNYC Studios
Media Type |
audio
Publication Date |
Aug 12, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:26:50

You have to give it to some elected representatives—they really will respond to the letters you send. Or at least, Alan Simpson did when my boyfriend (now husband) Arthur sent a plea for help. We were in love, but I was a reporter in New York and he studied wildlife in Wyoming. I didn’t think it could work. He did. And he thought that if a U.S. Senator intervened, our relationship could turn around.

That’s how I wound up in the kitchen of Alan and Ann Simpson, getting advice on maturity, commitment, and of course, sex.

This episode originally aired in 2014. 


Correction: During span.org/video/?22097-1/thomas-second-hearing-day-1-part-2">the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill testified that Thomas described porn movie scenes to her. They did not watch pornography together as former Sen. Alan Simpson said in our interview.

A story about what Alan Simpson, an expert on the federal deficit, taught me about loveand how it changed everything.

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A story about what Alan Simpson, an expert on the federal deficit, taught me about loveand how it changed everything.

Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time at deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. And support our work at deathsexmoney.org/donate.

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