#66 Deborah

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Relationships, Comedy

4.9 • 17.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

At 101 years old, Deborah discovered a box she'd stashed away a lifetime ago. What was inside reignited an old love and turned her life upside down.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:10.6	Oh.
0:13.3	Hey, you picked up the phone. Very spontaneous.
0:16.8	Do you think I'm spontaneous?
0:19.0	No, I'm really nothing spontaneous about you.
0:21.0	I'm pretty spontaneous. I live in Minnesota.
0:23.0	Nothing spontaneous about you living in Minnesota.
0:25.2	I got married.
0:26.6	Wow.
0:27.4	Oh, while I was at the shopping mall, I bought a parrot.
0:30.6	Yeah.
0:31.1	Oh, wait, one second.
0:32.9	Ah, chicken liver.
0:35.4	Oh, did you hear that in the background?
0:37.2	Yeah. Jackie Cohen. Oh, did you hear that in the background? Yeah.
0:37.7	What?
0:39.0	Jackie Cohen.
0:40.1	Oh, did you hear that?
0:42.5	Jackie Cohen.
0:44.4	Ha ha!
0:48.8	She hung up on you.
0:51.1	I know she did imaginary parrot.
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