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Big Mood, Little Mood: Not So Purely Platonic

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Danny Lavery welcomes Kat Chow, a reporter and author of the forthcoming memoir, Seeing Ghosts. Lavery and Chow tackle two letters: First, from a letter writer who is wondering how to trust a partner with a history of cheating. Another letter writer is wondering if her emotional affair with her best friend should be taken more seriously. Also, Chow takes a deep dive into Seeing Ghosts. 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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So ditch your desk, set your out of office on,

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and unwind on the white sandy beaches of the Dominican Republic.

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0:27.0

T's and C's apply at all protected.

0:30.0

Just a reminder that big mood,

0:32.0

little mood with Daniel and Lavery happens twice a week.

0:35.0

Sleep plus members get an additional mini episode or little big mood every Friday.

0:39.0

Sign up now to listen at sleep.com slash mood.

0:53.0

Hello and welcome back to another episode of big mood,

1:07.0

little mood with Danny Lavery.

1:09.0

With me in the studio this week is Kat Chao,

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a reporter and author of the memoir,

1:13.0

C in Ghosts, forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing on August 24th, 2021.

1:18.0

Kat, welcome. Thank you so much for being here.

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Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited.

1:23.0

I'm really excited to, not least because I think I just realized as I was reading your bio,

1:27.0

I feel as though my last five or six guests have all just either published a memoir

1:32.0

or are about to come out with one.

1:34.0

And I sort of like the idea that this is just like the summer of I talk with memoirists.

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