Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hi, it's Susan. Over the last two years, my brother and I have been taking care of our mom. Since she passed away in January, we've still been full out, as Emily Dickinson said in one of her poems, the sweeping up the heart and putting love

away. I have to tell you, as an aside, when Beckett read that on Emily Dickinson Part 2,

I bawled. I know I could not have got through recording that particular episode, despite my

still strong desire to discuss the Apple TV plus Dickinson series with her.

There's no way. And quite honestly, I don't know if that we will. She said we might, but I don't know.

I want to start by saying, thank you for the outpouring of love from your side of the mic.

I believe Beckett experienced the same thing when her mother passed away several years

back.

It's just overwhelming, but in the very best, most healing way.

So thank you all for that.

In addition to the sweeping up the heart, my brother and I have been sweeping up the house,

my parents' house in Connecticut, a state where neither of us lives.

It's kind of like the last busyness part of this grieving process.

I just, like yesterday, got back to my own home in Missouri and instead of recording the episode that

Beckett and I had prepared for this week, I honestly needed a little bit of a break. Just

sitting down to the mic, we're still looking at at least 24 hours of solid work ahead of us.

Beckett has been the best. The Tattooed Ladies episode and the

Herm Sultan episode, maybe two of my favorite of all times. But it wasn't fair to ask her,

who does have a full-time day job, you know, to go solo again. So we decided to pick my mom's favorite subject. I honestly was torn between

this one and Isadora Duncan, as my mother loved both of those people. But since there's a new series

that just debuted on HBO Max called Julia, I thought that this about the woman who taught

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