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collective. I do think my family loves me.

I just think that they need to get like better at loving me.

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Thanks. Hey, I'm Dylan Merin, and this is Conversations with People Who Hate Me, the show where I take

negative online comments and turn them into starting points for offline conversations.

This is, again, not an official episode, it's an in-between episode

when we're in between seasons and I'm going to speak to a listener of this show. The listener

I'm speaking to today, her name is Jamie, and she wrote to me with something that a lot of listeners write to me with.

The fact that this show helps them speak to their families.

No, Jamie is very different from some of her family members,

like some of you may be from your family members.

So I had a conversation with Jamie,

especially as some of us, might be reeling from

Thanksgiving dinners where we had awkward and difficult conversations.

So here is Jamie. It is. Hi, Jamie, how are you? It's doing. I'm doing well. How are you? I'm good. This is so exciting. Look, you just wrote me a sweet little note on

Instagram and now here we are oh my gosh I know I never expected this

I'm really excited and a little nervous.

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