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Big Mood, Little Mood: Lying To Mom and Dad

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Danny Lavery welcomes Jane Rice, a civil servant, and Edward Szekely, a radiographer, who live in Edinburgh, Scotland with their 3 year old daughter and 6 year old cat. Lavery, Rice, and Szekely take on two letters. First, from a young adult who wants to know why he can’t help lying to his parents. Another letter writer is trying to break their habit of using their dead name at work. Slate Plus members get another episode of Big Mood, Little Mood every Friday: sign up now! Need advice? Send Danny a question here. Email: mood@slate.com Production by Phil Surkis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello, and welcome back to big mood, little mood. I'm your host, Danny Emlavery,

1:32.4

and with me in the studio this week is Jane Rice and Edward Seikeh. They live in Edinburgh,

1:37.6

Scotland with their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old cat. Jane is a civil servant and

1:42.2

Ed is a radiographer in the National Health Service. Jane, Edward, welcome to the show.

1:46.5

Thank you for having us, Danny. I am especially glad to see you both again,

1:52.0

because I had slightly worried that I had strong armed you when last we spoke, which was also

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