Dear Prudence: The “Dirty Secret” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Advice enthusiast and diversity consultant Valerie Aurora joins for a discussion of keeping your Christmas costumes away from Thanksgiving. Then onto your letters! First up: My best friends are growing closer and leaving me behind. Help! Should I tell my boyfriend I had an affair even though we’re breaking up anyway? I just found out that a former co-worker who assaulted me changed his name and became a doctor – should I report his violent behavior to his work? Hear more Prudence by joining Slate Plus: Slate.com/Prudiepod.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | You're listening to this week's excerpt from the Dear Prudence podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | To get the full-length members-only version every week, join Slate Plus at slate.com slash prudipod. |
| 0:17.6 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:18.7 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:19.8 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudy. Dear Prudence Dear Prudence Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.5 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.5 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:22.5 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:24.1 | Do you think |
| 0:25.7 | that I should contact him again? |
| 0:28.2 | Help |
| 0:28.5 | Help |
| 0:28.9 | Hi |
| 0:29.5 | Thanks |
| 0:29.9 | Thank you |
| 0:30.7 | Thank you Welcome back to the Dear Prudence Show once again, and as always, I am your host, Mallory Ortberg, also known as Dear Prudence. |
| 0:48.3 | With me in the studio today is Valerie Aurora, who I am very much looking forward to talking to. But first, I want to address |
| 0:57.0 | an aspect, a component, a part of a letter that I recently answered in the live chat, |
| 1:01.8 | and did not get to as thoroughly unpack as I may have wished. Readers of the live chat may |
| 1:07.7 | already know the letter of which I speak. It is the Mrs. Clause outfit letter. |
| 1:13.6 | It is perhaps the greatest letter I have ever received, by which I think I mostly mean the letter |
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