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Hi, it's Jesse, and it's been a rough week.

We left our home in Brooklyn on Friday, and I don't know when we'll be back.

My wife and I put the baby and the dog in the back of the Subaru, and I sat right between

them, with the dog's head on my knee while I read books to the baby.

We drove 19 hours to her hometown in Mississippi.

We'll quarantine here for a couple of weeks and then if everyone's healthy will move in with

their mom. I have all kinds of feelings about it. I'm really sad to leave my things, my

friends, my community. I'm anxious that neither of us get sick. I feel so guilty about leaving and really

grateful that we have this great option to go to. And grateful that I can keep

recording our show and talking to you all confused about what we should be talking

about. Let's face it, it's a weird time to be talking about careers and how to grow them.

While we're also thinking a lot about whether we're healthy, the people around us, how they are.

And I guess that's part of the reason why I called my friend Nancy Loveland.

Nancy runs crisis text Line. Nancy gets this real time stream of

information about how we're all feeling. You know sometimes when we're feeling so

bad the one thing we can do to feel better is help other people. I made this call

hopeful that I'd learn about how people were feeling. But I finished this call certain that

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