Dear Prudence: The “Brother Betrayal” Edition

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Slate Podcasts

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Relationships

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🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Prudence is joined this week by Washington DC based writer, Zoë Selengut. Zoë works as a cataloger of rare and unusual books, ephemera, and other surprising cultural materials for Brian Cassidy Bookseller. Together they dig into letters about what to do when you discover the nonprofit you work for is definitely providing it’s employees a living wage, how to handle the realization your older brother touched you inappropriately when he was a teen, how to tell your parents you’re polyamorous without them disowning you, what actions to take when similarly named neighbor lies and tells everyone that you’re sisters. Slate Plus members will hear Prudie and Zoë discuss a letter writer who’s wondering how to preserve her friendship with a bestie who resents her successful dating life, and a mother who is wondering if she should disinvite her son from the family vacation because he lets his baby daughter cry alone at night. Not yet a member? Sign up at Slate.com/PrudiePod. Email: [email protected] Production by Phil Surkis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to this week's excerpt from the Dear Prudence Podcast to get the full length
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0:09.3	Dear Prudence, Dear Prudence, Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence.
0:15.0	Dear Prudence.
0:17.0	Dear Prudence. Do you think that I should contact him again?
0:24.0	Help.
0:25.0	Thanks.
0:26.0	Thank you. Hello and as always I am your host dear prudence
0:40.0	once again and as always I am your host dear Prudence otherwise known as
0:44.3	Daniel Mallory Orpberg. With me in the studio this week is Zoe Selangit a Washington DC
0:49.9	based writer. She also works as a cataloger of rare and unusual books,
0:53.6	ephemera, and other surprising cultural materials for Brian Cassidy, bookseller.
0:57.8	Zoe, hi, welcome. Thank you. Hi. How are you?
1:03.0	It has just been a bad couple of weeks.
1:05.7	It has for the world.
1:08.7	Yeah, the world's terrible.
1:11.7	I live in D.C. so I'm close to all the terrible
1:14.0	terribleness. I had shoulder surgery recently, so if I'm loopier than usual, I'm going
1:20.9	to blame it on that. And... and please do I think that that's my
1:25.0	my privilege yes aside from that I'm great though okay I'm very very glad to
1:30.0	hear that you are doing well, not everyone is.
1:33.2	And so it's always great to hear that someone's like,
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