Hello and welcome to an episode of Ask Me Anything with Jamila Jamil, where you send in your fabulous questions,

and I bring on an excellent guest to help me answer them. And this week does not disappoint.

I have the brilliant Dawn Porter on this episode talking to me about all things love, but especially the love between friends.

The love and the heartbreak and the

complications and the growing apart and the coming back together and how to deal with a fight.

So many of you wanted to ask questions about friendships. And I think we really don't acknowledge

enough in this world how friends are truly some of the great loves and losses of your life. And I get quite

emotional in this episode at one point, which I think is one of the only times I've ever

gotten to breaking point on a podcast. But I think friendship is a sore spot for me, especially

this year, and you'll find out why in the episode.

But Dawn and I are friends, and we've been through a lot together, and this is just such a delight to have her. She rarely does podcasts anymore. She rarely does press, and she's one of the

wisest people I've ever known. She's someone who's so great to turn to advice for. And so I'm so, so happy that she's here answering your questions with me. And she's so thoughtful

and so boldly honest in a way so few people are. And so I hope you enjoy it. And let me know if

her answers helped you, especially those of you who wrote in the questions.

And as ever, I cannot tell you how often the same question came up.

And I don't say that to make you feel as though you aren't original or you aren't experiencing something unique,

but more so that you just always remember that you are not alone

in your experience. So this has asked me anything with the fabulous author, speaker, documentary

maker, cultural observer, and all-round icon, Dawn Porter.

Dawn O' Bloody Porter, hello.

How are you?

Welcome to our way.

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