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Welcome to the bad broadcast. I for your messages, your emails, your DMs, your texts, your calls, your Marco Polos.

If you reached out to me in any capacity, I saw it, I appreciated it. I'm sorry if I didn't get back

to you. I was reading every single one of them. So many stories from you guys of either you

experienced something similar, you experienced the exact same thing, you

understand the grief, you understand the confusion, you understand all of it. Like every time I've

shared something tough or even, honestly, even just like relating to motherhood, womanhood,

work, anything, when I hear from you guys, I'm always shocked, and I don't know

why I'm shocked at this point, how similar all of us are, like the emotions that we feel. It

doesn't even matter where you're from, how you were raised, like womanhood and girlhood and

motherhood and all of those things. They're so overlapping in so many ways for all

of us. And I just, yeah, I just read through everybody's stories. I was sobbing for like most

of the day on Monday. Just couldn't believe that so many of us have experienced it. Like so

grateful that I knew I had a community who understood what I was going through. Like, so validating you guys

like reaching out and saying, because I mean, it's true. And if you don't know what I'm

talking about, just listen to the beginning of last week's episode. But it was a confusing

thing to grieve because basically what the ER doctor had told me was that it wasn't a real

pregnancy. And that was like

the hardest thing to hear ever because unless you have been in that position and peed on a

stick and gotten that positive test, like you can't really know what that feels like. It is real,

no matter what. Like whether it was chemical, it was an early loss, whatever it was, it was just a spike in

your hormones. Like, you in your heart believe that you are about to have a child. And I just felt so

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