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Hi, my name's Alex Goldman.

This is hyperfixed.

On the show, listeners write in with their problems, big and small,

and I solve them.

Or at least I try.

And if I don't, I at least give a good reason why I can't.

Thank you. I at least give a good reason why I can't. So far, this show's been the small claims court of problems.

Driving in New York City, grocery store refrigerators, diarrhea buttons.

I mean, sure, the stories were sometimes undergirded by complicated science and historical

deep dives.

But the problems

themselves are relatively personal and small. Problems that whether I fix them or not, had definitive

answers. But today's question's bigger. It's way harder to answer, and it will have inexorably

life-altering consequences for its ask her. This week, Kristen has doubts.

I had had doubts and questions brewing.

I've always been kind of a questioner, a searcher, you know.

This is Kristen.

She's 32 years old.

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