Boy Problem

Change Agent

The New York Times

Self-improvement, Personal Journals, How To, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Allene is 80. She's been widowed for 7 years. And then she meets Larry, who makes her feel "on fire from the neck down." Things seem to be going great before he ghosts her, throwing Allene into an existential crisis. And the answers to that might lie in the story of a Home Shopping Network maverick, who figured out how to sell over 100,000 jeans a day.

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0:00.0	Hello?
0:05.0	Hello?
0:07.0	Hi Charles, sorry about that.
0:10.0	That's technology.
0:11.0	No.
0:12.0	No worries. How are you doing today? I'm a nervous wreck. I'm an
0:15.1	nervous wreck. I'm an absolute positive nervous wreck. Why? I'm 80 years old. My husband passed away seven years ago. However, this past June, I fell in love.
0:31.6	Oh my gosh. I know I know all this is this. Holy crap.
0:38.0	Oh my God.
0:40.0	Jesus very, I don't. I can't even hardly talk about it.
0:44.4	Really?
0:45.4	Yes.
0:46.4	It was going along fine up until actually he's getting cold feast.
0:57.0	From the New York Times I'm Charles Charles Doohick, and this is Change Agent.
1:05.0	Today, we're talking with Alene.
1:11.0	Start me at the beginning. Today we're talking with Alene.
1:14.0	Start me at the beginning.
1:15.0	Yeah.
1:16.0	How did you meet him the first time?
1:18.0	Sure.
1:19.0	Okay, I'll give you a short scenario.
1:21.0	The first time I met was about two years ago.
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