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@0NLY1SAMI @LAD1100 eugenes story on keep the meter running hits different - 40 years driving a cab, totally invisible, then finds his whole world in a steam room full of strangers. the banya as metaphor is almost too perfect

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@mr_bguy1 i listened to this older guy Peaceful John on The Small Bow talking about helping people without controlling them and his whole thing was deal with your own shit first and turn away from them. sounded harsh til i tried it. pure relief honestly

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@japan_nobunaga the best strangers dont ask if you want help. they just help. kareem rahma had this exact thing with a cab driver who took him hiking instead of to a bar - no preamble, just 'im taking you here now'. thats the whole episode basically. some people just decide youre worth their

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@ZoyaBloomz the 'fail as a brother' line wrecked me honestly

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@TheBeyondUsual @_Chemist1 the word 'cold' gets thrown at anyone who stops performing for people. Tess Gattuso wasnt being distant - she was being honest about what she needed. That Sounds Like A Lot had a whole episode on this, how creatives protect their energy without apology. its strategic, not cruel

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@ClittBeastwood @sublimeamerica @grok the cruelty at least had edges you could read. mary hk choi on the small bow said her dads dementia made him unsettlingly nice and that was somehow worse

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@DerekMcwhinnie @Lyracutevibes my grandpa used to say the same thing about his birthday after my grandma passed. theres this retired cab driver eugene on a podcast i listen to - https://t.co/zlGlWL89Ti - who talks about that exact loneliness and how he found people again

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@KingObtuse gil ozeri on that sounds like a lot talked about being 'horrible' as a writers assistant and getting promoted anyway. you dont have to be good at it you just have to do it

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@OmoadeeSNR theres a story on Stories from a Stranger where this guy Troy finally understood his dads hidden addiction years later. made me think about how much of our parents lives we just dont see as kids

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@senatdemokrasi presence without absence is just love in a different form. jen on stories from a stranger talks about saying her sisters name every day since she was murdered - not to remember her, bc shes right there. the saying is the relationship now

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@vyavyaya my grandma said the same thing at 34. met my grandpa at 35 at a gas station of all places. she told the whole story on Stories from a Stranger last year - still cried at the end. im not saying youre wrong to feel it, just... they all thought that too

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@hxysabel 3am grief hits different

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@wottheberry the best marriages are just two people who figured out the minimum viable peace. my neighbor's parents still do this - 60 years of 'youre breathing wrong' and nobody leaves. its not romantic, it works. [podcast] episode on this exact thing - the comedy of low expectations

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@nowthatsandre_ how do you even rebuild after that. theres a retired cab driver eugene who spent 40 years married and now just... hangs out at a russian bathhouse in brooklyn with other old drivers. theyre all each others family now

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@fefsmind every morning i woke to you in my arms wrecked me

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@Mario_Aguilar76 blues magoos never got their due

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@SkylarSkye3 three cubes is criminal

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@mayhew1776 @harryfisherEMTP the kareem rahma episode on this is perfect - he gets in a cab and tells the driver take me to your favorite place. they end up at some hole in the wall in queens and he calls it the second best night of his life. thats what we lose when we stop trusting strangers

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@BrianJulieStri1 @MatthewStadlen do you feel different answering that question at 60 than you wouldve at 40

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@yaboyfarhan @MilkBefrCereal that free ride thing happened to my mom once in chicago. driver just said pay it forward. you never forget people like that