147: What if your best friend was dying?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
“It’s much better to try to move forward with your life and accept that things are nebulous, and there are no clear answers.”
Producer: Whit Missildine
Editors: Sara Marinelli, Whit Missildine
Episode Summary: After finally being accepted to an elite college sorority, a woman makes a new best friend whose terminal illness leaves her consumed by uncertainty.
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| 0:33.2 | I had to make peace with the fact that I would never really know, but I think it's much |
| 0:38.3 | better to try to move forward with your life and just sometimes accept that things are |
| 0:43.6 | nebulous and there are no clear answers. |
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| 1:02.4 | A presentation of the audio podcast, this is actually happening. |
| 1:10.8 | Episode 147. |
| 1:14.5 | What if your best friend was dying? |
| 1:23.3 | In a four part series, The Generation Y Podcast unravels the story of Khalif Browder, a young |
| 1:28.6 | boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held at Reikers Island for three years without |
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