Hey, it's Anna, with the first listener update in our summer romance series, Hot Dates.

It's from Thomas, the guy who was recently divorced, beginning to date in New York City,

and trying not to jump into anything too quickly.

As we were putting together our first episode in this series, Thomas sent us some

voice memo updates, one after the other.

Well, that was interesting.

I had a really tough conversation with a friend tonight.

Turns out we both... with a friend tonight.

Turns out we both are interested in each other. We both have crushes on each other. It feels like it could be.

It could be,

it could be a really good thing, but

fortunately I'm not really in a good place.

A place where I feel that I'm datable.

And now I run into this wall.

It's a nice wall.

It's good.

It's nice when somebody tells you they like you.

But timing, you know?

Timing can be really, really rough.

I'm scared.

How I'm scared. That is a friendship.

I'm scared that I'm scared that I'll miss out on an opportunity maybe for something good.

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