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One train journey at a time can help create a greener future.

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Hello my friends, I'm Kate Boehler and this is Everything Happens.

Our most precious relationships are also our most complicated, aren't they?

Ah, the relationships we have with parents who we don't fully understand or who don't fully understand us.

Or with our partners or former partners.

With our friends who keep making the same mistakes.

Bless them, bless their hearts.

With our children, when they're little, and then, you know, again with them when they become fully formed adults.

And with ourselves, as we change and grow and wrestle with our mistakes and regrets and hopes.

My guest today has a lot to teach us about how to love and be loved.

Kwame Alexander is a New York Times best-selling author of, yes, you will hear me correctly, 38 books, including The Cross Over, for which he won basically just every single award including the Newberry Medal.

And Disney Plus just released a TV series based on it, which I cannot wait to watch.

Kwame serves as the poet in residence for NPR's Weekend Edition.

And he is the author of a new memoir called Why Fathers Cry at Night.

It is an honest book of poems and essays that name the difficult and beautiful and heart-wrenching conversations that we have or maybe just should be having.

With the people we love and the ones who love us.

It was a book he didn't plan on having to write until his mom died, his marriage with his wife Steph came undone, and his daughter became estranged all within a few years.

So, yeah, tender times. I cannot wait to talk with him.

Oh my gosh. Kwame, hello.

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