Dear Prudence: The Unconditional Love Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today’s questions are about life’s unfairness and the meaning of unconditional love; Dear Prudence and writer Carvell Wallace roll up their sleeves and get tough. A woman writes with a question about what she owes her troubled, and now-adult, adopted daughter; and an aunt wonders whether she must spend her savings on a treatment that might -- or might not -- save her terminally-ill nephew’s life. Remember, you can always hear more questions and advice by subscribing to Slate Plus: visit slate.com/prudiepod.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:08.1 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:09.0 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:10.0 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:12.0 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:12.2 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:12.9 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:14.3 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:18.4 | Help. |
| 0:18.9 | Help. |
| 0:19.4 | Thanks. |
| 0:19.7 | Thanks. |
| 0:20.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:20.9 | Welcome back to the Dear Prudence podcast. |
| 0:35.9 | I am Mallory Ortberg, also known as Dear Prudence. And with us in the studio this week is Carvel Wallace, a writer whose work has appeared at MTV, The New Yorker, and the New York Times, and who most recently wrote a long-form history of the Negro Motorist Green Book. Carvel, welcome to the studio. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:55.4 | I am really glad that you're here for the opening of this episode, actually, |
| 0:59.2 | because I wanted to start by talking about the greatest letter I have yet received in the Dear Prudence canon, |
| 1:06.0 | which is the woman whose boyfriend has a tattoo on his back that is either a rosary or a pearl necklace |
| 1:13.4 | with a bead commemorating every woman he is either dated or slept with. |
| 1:17.7 | That's nice. |
| 1:18.9 | And he has, I believe he's up to 42. |
| 1:21.4 | And he recently, as a surprise, gifted her with an addition of four beads. |
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