Death, Sex & Money - Cut Loose: Your Breakup Stories
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
We asked for your stories about breakups. You told us about being left, doing the leaving, and the times when you're not exactly sure what happened.
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| 0:00.0 | That's the hard thing about breakups. |
| 0:02.8 | They change you, and it's not easy to come back from. |
| 0:11.0 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm here for my ex-husband's funeral. |
| 0:16.6 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:20.0 | This is not about the money. |
| 0:21.3 | This is about you and me and we're not good anymore. |
| 0:24.1 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:25.8 | It's over now. |
| 0:27.4 | Really over. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:31.5 | A breakup is one of those rare things in life where there's a clear before and after. |
| 0:37.3 | You were together before, a team. |
| 0:40.0 | Now you're separate and you're on your own. Cynthia Penalva went through her hardest breakup four |
| 0:45.8 | years ago. He was my rock. He was my person. I really missed that. Her breakup was with her best |
| 0:52.8 | friend. They'd been really close for about 15 years, starting when they were teenagers growing |
| 0:58.1 | up in Miami. |
| 0:59.6 | They went to the same church, their families knew each other, they even worked together. |
| 1:03.9 | So we saw each other like six days a week. |
| 1:07.2 | And then one day they had a conversation that changed everything. |
| 1:15.4 | I remember that he was trying to beat around the bush. |
| 1:19.2 | And I asked him, are you coming out to me? |
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