Estrangement Purgatory
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Audio
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My job is up for grabs, my marriage is up for grabs. |
| 0:05.0 | I mean, if I told my mom and my dad where I was, |
| 0:08.0 | the phone would simply go dead. |
| 0:10.0 | This is Death, Sex, and Money. |
| 0:17.0 | The show from W and My Seed about the things we think about a lot |
| 0:23.0 | and need to talk about more. |
| 0:26.0 | I am a salesman. |
| 0:33.0 | In our longest relationships, there are ebbs and flows of closeness, |
| 0:38.0 | sometimes intentional, sometimes not, depending on what's going on in your life |
| 0:42.0 | or whether it's easy to be together. |
| 0:44.0 | And then sometimes, no matter how entangled you are, |
| 0:48.0 | there's a rupture, a break. |
| 0:50.0 | You become estranged from the people you come from, |
| 0:53.0 | or from the communities that once felt like home. |
| 0:56.0 | I have been estranged from my family since I was 16. |
| 1:01.0 | I moved out and I just never saw them again. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm in a 13-year-old journey of trying to, like, |
| 1:08.0 | estranged myself and my sister from our mom. |
| 1:11.0 | And I haven't spoken to them for the last 129 days. |
| 1:16.0 | I don't even know that I'd recognize him on the street if I saw him |
| 1:19.0 | or recognize his voice. |
| 1:22.0 | When we asked you our listeners earlier this year about your experiences |
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