Death, Sex & Money - I Married A Dreamer During The Trump Presidency
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Audio
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa never thought much about the immigration process until she fell in love with Freddy, whose legal status in the U.S. is now in jeopardy.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a lot of things that you can't start or plan ahead for it, |
| 0:05.0 | because you don't know how it's going to go a year for now or two years from now. |
| 0:10.0 | So those things are just staying in a dream basis right now. |
| 0:13.0 | That's what that kind of recipients are doing. |
| 0:15.0 | They're dreaming about a future that's not there yet. |
| 0:19.0 | This is death, sex, and money. does not dare yet. |
| 0:24.6 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:25.7 | Mr. Blue is dead. |
| 0:26.9 | Dead is diligent. |
| 0:30.5 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:32.2 | Come on, let's go spend some money. |
| 0:34.1 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:36.6 | All your efforts to keep me from you are going to fail. I'm in a sale. |
| 0:42.3 | Hi. Hi. How are you? Good. Freddie, nice to me. Hi, Freddie. I met Freddie and Vanessa this |
| 0:48.2 | fall at their apartment in northern New Jersey. It's a cozy spot on the ground floor. They met just over two years ago at the gym. I saw him and he looks kind of like the coach. And I said, excuse me, are you the coach of this class? And he's like, yeah. I said, okay, well, I need to introduce myself to you. It's my first day here. So just look out for me so I don't die. Like, I've never done this. Freddie, did you like immediately kind of notice Vanessa? |
| 1:12.0 | Well, I didn't notice the hair. She had the biggest hair in the class. |
| 1:16.6 | A few weeks later, when Freddie sent out a group text, wishing everyone in the class a happy Thanksgiving, |
| 1:22.6 | Vanessa responded directly to him, and they struck up in exchange. |
| 1:26.6 | So then we ended up meeting at |
| 1:28.8 | Dunkin' Donuts for like at 11-ish midnight. How long did we chat for like an hour? |
| 1:35.6 | A couple hours, like two hours, hour, two hours over. I was listening most of the time. |
| 1:41.8 | Like always? |
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