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Hello and welcome back to big mood little mood. I am your host Danny Lavery and with me in this studio this week is

Frankie Day who's a writer in her free time. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her puppy and a middle-aged man named Claudio

Semanetti. Frankie welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really happy to be here. Tell me two things about your puppy

right now. They are very cute and they are kind of naughty. That is exactly as it should be. That is exactly what I want in a puppy situation. Oh yeah, of course. That's is the thing about puppies. If you have a full grown dog

It's like I mean, they're fun. They're great, but puppies get into trouble. They're running around. It's often. Yeah, how's your how's your middle-aged man? How's he doing? He's good. He was with me before, but he's gone now. I don't

know where he got off to, but he was in the room. I don't know. He just kind of wandered off as they do. I hope that wherever he is, he's safe and warm and in a comfortable environment. Yeah, he's probably just downstairs. Yeah, that sounds like a perfectly reason. Please for him to be. Well, I am really looking forward to answering some questions together today and just generally helping other people to improve their lives. Do you have anything like off the top of your head?

You're sort of hoping to accomplish today. So I've been thinking about that and I really just just start. I want to say that you have taught me a lot about just being like radically empathetic to other people who are radically empathetic. I love this.

I always I used to read Dear Prudence and I I still do and I read it and I'd read the question and I think, Oh, this is how I would respond. And then I'd read your response and I'd be like, Oh, that is so kind.

That is so wonderful. And so I think I've learned a lot about really being empathetic and thinking about things from another person's point of view.

And I hope to use that skill today. And of course, I've been in therapy for the past year and a half, which is helped a lot.

Well, that is fabulous. And now that I am as full of myself as I could possibly be, I think this is a beautiful moment to start answering questions. Would you mind reading our first letter?

Absolutely. Subject wishing for support. I am an educated middle class single woman with a stable job.

I recently earned a promotion that came with a raise that made it possible for me to adopt a child.

I have been interested in adopting since I was a teenager. I'm now in my mid-30s. I love children working higher education previously as a K-12 educator and nannied during grad school.

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