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Her money comes to you through PRX. Hi, I'm Jean Chatsky.

Welcome to Her Money.

Very glad to have all of you along with us today,

although I'm hoping that your day has gotten off

to a better start than my day.

Let me just tell you that on today's show,

we decided we've gotten so many of your great questions by email and

Facebook and Twitter that Kelly and I decided that we would do another mailbag episode

of her money. We've pulled together a bunch of questions. We're

going to spend this podcast answering them and the reason that we do this

podcast besides all other things, is because life happens and emergencies happen and we all need

to have our financial acts together to get through those things and today life happened to me.

I was telling Kelly before I got here that I now know the difference between friends of mine who live in New York City and don't drive

and friends of mine who live in the suburbs and do drive. And the difference is is this when you say to them on my way into

work today I had an unbelievable blowout the ones who live in the city say, well your hair looks great.

And the ones who live in the suburbs say, oh my God, are you okay? And it's, oh my God, are you okay that I was looking for I hit a pothole that was not to be believed I was

driving into the city I had a breakfast meeting that I was really looking forward to.

I wasn't taking the train because I had Teddy with me we were going to spend the night in the city as well.

So he was sitting shotgun as he likes to do.

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