Death, Sex & Money - We're Not Going To Have Karl Again
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🗓️ 13 July 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Amber Scorah and Lee Towndrow's first child, Karl, died unexpectedly when he was three months old. As they grieved, they also decided to have another baby.
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| 0:00.0 | You think everyone does this. |
| 0:02.6 | This is just sort of one of those first rights of passage of parenthood that you have to go through. |
| 0:07.6 | So it never, of course, crossed my mind that anything could go terribly wrong. |
| 0:15.9 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:19.1 | You're not worth $300. |
| 0:21.0 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:24.5 | Love. |
| 0:25.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.2 | What is that? |
| 0:27.2 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:28.9 | Death is just a part of life. |
| 0:31.0 | Something we're all destined to do. |
| 0:33.1 | I'm in a sale. |
| 0:35.8 | I remember when we were pregnant with Carl, we had a total sense of innocence about |
| 0:41.5 | everything. |
| 0:42.3 | And then I remember, you know, when Carl was born, I was taking a whole bunch of pictures |
| 0:50.0 | at that time because I thought, how is it that everything looks so beautiful? That was totally |
| 0:55.9 | high. And it's been really hard to get as excited this time. This is Lee Towndrow. He and his |
| 1:06.3 | partner Amber Scora live in Brooklyn. I think we feel a little bit like, I don't want to say cynical, but... |
| 1:15.6 | I feel like there's a loss of meaning. |
| 1:18.4 | Like Carl's everything about the pregnancy and your first child, it just infuses your life |
| 1:24.3 | with so much meaning, and that I think is the hardest part it's just if life feels |
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