Amy Ryan
speaker
134 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 28 May
Amy Ryan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Either 40 years from now or a few moments ago, he'd seen her in his hospital room.
He'd woken from a nap, and she'd been dozing in the chair next to his bed, one hand resting on his arm.
But now she was standing in front of him with her hair dark again and that youthful roundness back in her cheeks.
She was wearing her prized purple wool coat tied at the waist.
It already had a hole starting in the seam at one shoulder, but it would be another four years before she'd agreed to get rid of it.
He'd forgotten how...
Cheerful and glamorous she'd been, even in those lean years when neither of them could afford to take the other to a restaurant.
She looked wonderful in that ratty coat, like a movie star after an apocalypse.
But what struck him most in that moment was how little she'd changed over the years.
He was even trying to reconcile what she'd asked just now with the conversation they had earlier that morning in the hospital, a plan to take a vacation somewhere calm once he was feeling better, maybe the Irish countryside.
Then he caught himself and recalled what it was she'd just said, which was in fact quite memorable in that it was the first thing she'd ever said to him.
The last time he'd been at this party, he'd been lingering in the same corner, drinking alone.
He'd apparently caught her attention, and she came over, asking him whether or not he was the hired tap dancer.
The question had been an early indication of her sense of humor.
She intended to tease him for being so withdrawn at a party.
When she'd asked it the first time, he'd been flustered.
His strategy back then had been to get at least two drinks in to settle his nerves before attempting a conversation, but she caught him in the middle of the first, and so he'd answered her by saying perhaps too earnestly, no, will there be tap dancing?
This had caused her to laugh hard.
and sidle up to him for the rest of the evening.
She'd been amused by his haplessness, smiling at him with her lips parted and her eyebrows raised as if she was watching a statue come to life.
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