Hey, it's Laura. Wow, we are halfway through season two. From where I sit, you really seem to be enjoying the show.

Our listener downloads look great, and our subscriber numbers have grown. Are you not subscribed?

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And we have so much more good stuff for you this season.

In fact, my team and I are hard at work producing new shows.

So today we have a special treat for you.

You may have heard that Dating Well Gray is now produced by North Carolina Public Radio.

Well, that station has a great portfolio of podcasts

that I highly recommend you have a listen to. Check them out at wunc.org. I feel a real

kinship to one of those podcasts in particular. It's called Embodied, hosted by a curious

colleague of mine, Anita Rao. She's nowhere near gray, but she has a lot of questions about sex, relationships, and health, just like me.

Soon Embodied will be out with the second season, but here's one of my favorite episodes from the first season of the show, all about aging and intimacy.

And you'll hear a familiar voice in this one, too. Have a listen.

I hope you enjoy embodied. I personally didn't spend a lot of time around very old folks

growing up. I had three living grandparents for most of my childhood, but they all lived overseas. We'd travel to see

them occasionally, but I never had that day-to-day closeness with seniors that some of my friends

experienced, weekends visiting older relatives, or calling up a grandparent on a whim to catch up

on life. When my grandfather passed away last year at the age of 83, he and my grandmother had been married

for 53 years. Seven kids, 20 grandkids, and eight great-grandkids later, they had weathered

a lot in their relationship, some of which I knew, a lot of which I didn't.

My grandmother has been having a really hard time in the wake of my grandfather's death.

Even though they never had a lovey-dovey kind of relationship, it's clear how much their

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