280: What if you lived on the line between life and death?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Growing up in a family of ex-Scientologists, a person finds solace in relationships, when they suddenly fall in love with someone calling everything in their life into question while descending into mental illness.
Today's episode featured Cass Donish. Cass is a poet, writer, and educator from the West Coast. They write about queer desire, grief and loss, and ecology. They live in Missouri. Website: cassdonish.com
Producers: Whit Missildine, Aviva Lipkowitz, Andrew Waits
Content/Trigger Warnings: suicide, suicidal ideation, mental illness, explicit language
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