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From Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia, welcome to the heart.

I'm Caitlin Prest. And after a long sleep, this show has returned.

I'm back with this music in your ear with two new magical humans.

Phoebe Hunter and Nicole Kelly. They are the new producers of this show.

They are spending hours and hours sitting in headphones, bringing microphones into their most intimate moments

and being forced to listen to those intimate moments again and again and again and again

as they carve and shape them into stories that will register and resonate for you.

And this is their inaugural heart episode.

And today on the show, we are going to hear a love story of a certain kind.

My new favorite kind of love because I'm not in romantic love right now and I'm questioning everything about the fact that we build our lives around that special and unpredictable drug.

It's about a certain kind of right of passage.

It's about friendship. It's about community. It's about utopia. It's about you.

Your mom is a quintessential 90s power mom.

Her business cards have gold and vast letters on them to match the gold blazer that she wears to sell houses.

Her lips and nails are painted a bold shade of red because red is her power color.

Your mom never even considered not working and some of the other moms judge her for it.

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