Death, Sex & Money - Dating Was So Hard, Until It Wasn't
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Katie Heaney wrote a memoir about her lifelong single status. Then she realized she was looking for love in the wrong place.
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| 0:00.0 | Being away from home and just experiencing new things and making myself do things I was uncomfortable with, I would have to believe, made it easier to come to these realizations about myself. |
| 0:15.6 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:18.7 | Don't kill him. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm not going to kill him. |
| 0:21.3 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:24.7 | Bonus time is just around the corner. |
| 0:26.5 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:28.3 | Maybe you're honest. |
| 0:29.7 | And 50 other lines to get into a girl's chance. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm Anna's Sale. |
| 0:35.6 | When I first met Katie Haney, she was 27 years old and totally freaked out about dating. |
| 0:42.3 | The points that stress me out are everything up to the date. |
| 0:45.4 | And then like towards the end where I start worrying about like, are we going to kiss each other? |
| 0:51.1 | I can't tell what this guy thinks. You know, how are we going to decide whether |
| 0:56.8 | we want to do this again? This was exhausting. I want to go home. This was two years ago. She |
| 1:03.1 | just published a memoir called Never Have I Ever, My Life So Far Without a Date. And she'd recently |
| 1:09.3 | left her hometown to work for BuzzFeed in New York City. |
| 1:12.8 | So you moved from Minnesota to New York City? |
| 1:15.6 | Yes. |
| 1:16.3 | And what's, like, what is different? |
| 1:19.5 | Can I, can I say a swear word? |
| 1:21.5 | Yeah. |
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