Death, Sex & Money - College Sweethearts: Transformed
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🗓️ 3 December 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Liam and Marisa fell in love as college students. Then, Liam began his gender transition. Here, they speak candidly about staying committed through serious change.
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| 0:00.0 | Marissa and I started to look like a straight couple instead of like some sort of queerish mish mashmash. |
| 0:10.8 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:14.2 | Do you think the sexual revolution has gone too far? |
| 0:17.4 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:20.6 | Money isn't real, George. |
| 0:22.1 | Doesn't matter. |
| 0:23.0 | It only seems like it does. |
| 0:24.5 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:26.3 | You guys want to go see a dead body? |
| 0:28.1 | I'm on a sail. |
| 0:31.2 | Liam had been crushing on Marissa for a while when it happened. |
| 0:34.7 | We were both getting on the same subway, and I needed to get off the train and transfer, |
| 0:39.8 | but I was so wrapped up and excited in seeing her that I just stayed on the train. |
| 0:44.0 | Liam Lowry was a freshman at Fordham. |
| 0:46.9 | He'd noticed Marissa's cool haircut and worn cowboy boots in the campus cafe a few months before. |
| 0:53.5 | Marissa Carroll was older, a sophomore. |
| 0:56.5 | We had some mutual friends. I was casually dating other people. So she didn't think much about it |
| 1:02.2 | when Liam asked her to coffee. And then he walked me home after, tried to plan a kiss on me |
| 1:08.9 | as I, as we say goodbye, and I shut it down. |
| 1:13.5 | That you did. |
| 1:14.6 | That wasn't within the rules of the game. |
| 1:17.2 | I felt like we had meant on friendly ground. |
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