Laura here, happy August.

If we were in Europe, we'd basically stop working for the month and go on vacation.

We here at Dating While Gray think that's a fine idea, but we can't follow suit.

We're working on a one-hour radio special with APM called Love Across the Divide.

Plus, we're prepping new podcast episodes for September and beyond.

So for the next month, while we're working on these projects, we're dropping encore episodes

in your Dating Well Gray podcast feed.

Please enjoy them while you're taking your break.

You can also go to datingwellgray.com to catch up with any of the speed dating

while gray episodes you might have missed from the last few months.

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And thank you for being part of our community listeners.

I'm Lorstasi, and this is Dating While Gray, the grown-up's guide to love, sex, and relationships.

On this final episode of our first season, I'm sharing some advice I've found especially insightful since becoming single.

Last summer, my old friend Hope came to town, and we met for drinks to catch up.

In fact, when we met up for Happy Hour, she had just gone through a very messy breakup with her first love post-marriage.

So we talked about that for a while, and then Hope asked how I was doing. And that's when I said aloud for the first time that I was worried I was attracted to someone who wasn't really available, at least not by my definition.

Hope looked at me and gently said,

If you can't walk in through the front door, don't let him in through a window.

Wow.

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