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This is Love

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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When Minh Nguyen was in school, he didn’t ask anyone to sign his yearbooks — he says he was too uncomfortable. But twenty years later, he started reaching out to all his former classmates. He asks everyone the same questions. For more, check out Jordan P. Hickey’s article for D Magazine. Say hello on Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Want to listen to This is Love ad-free? Sign up for Criminal Plus – you’ll get to listen to This is Love, Criminal, and Phoebe Reads a Mystery without any ads. Plus, you’ll get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal and other exclusive benefits. Learn more and sign up here. We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.8	I saw, you know, like that the message notification, you know, pop up on Facebook.
0:51.9	I'm like, oh, men win.
0:53.7	Like, man, it has been years and
0:55.0	years. So I first got this message from in on LinkedIn. The first thing I thought was,
1:00.3	oh, man, men. I hadn't talked to him in 20-something years. In 2023-something years,
1:05.4	in 2003, Jordan Hickey and Justin Ewing heard from an old classmate.
1:11.6	His name is Min Win.
1:14.4	So what did the message say?
1:17.5	It was like, I'm doing a project.
1:20.7	I'm reaching out to all the different alums that I can think of.
1:26.8	And so it wasn't super specific.
1:29.6	I think it was just like I'm trying to connect with past students
1:33.2	and to kind of just see where everyone is in their lives.
1:37.7	Minwin was trying to reach every single person he'd gone to school with.
1:43.6	Were you surprised when you heard that Min was doing this project?
1:48.3	Yes. I kind of shocked, honestly.
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