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Hey Modern Lovers, we're dropping into your feed for a second time this week to give you a little extra love.

It's an episode of another WBUR Podcast, endless thread hosted by Amory Seavritson and Ben Brock Johnson.

Every episode features something extraordinary found on Reddit, the surprising, the mysterious, and the utterly human.

This episode tells a story about processing grief and where we turn when the people closest to us don't seem to know what to do or say to help us move forward.

Here's the show.

Hey, just a heads up. This episode deals with the topic of death in a pretty detailed way.

If that's not for you, maybe take a listen to something else from our catalog.

I guess it's like... the idea of like going through like a dark tunnel.

You can kind of see the light at the end of the tunnel, but like you don't know where the tunnel ends.

And so you just keep going through the tunnel until you get to the other side and you don't really know when that will be.

But you just have to keep the otherwise you're stuck in the middle of the tunnel, right?

This is TJ. She's a redditor.

And I'm a journalist, I'm 31, and I live in Brooklyn.

I follow a ton of different subreddits from food to memes to RuPaul's Drag Race.

And I'm a part of a couple different feminism communities. I have a feminism tattoo on my middle finger. It's the Venus symbol.

And I use that to flip off the patriarchy whenever I can.

I know TJ because we both used to work for the same radio station in New York.

And when I ran into her about a year ago, she told me a story that practically knocked me over.

About something that happened a few years back. That has changed her life completely.

And how that change has played out on Reddit.

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