My Best Friend's Baby
The Longest Shortest Time
Hillary Frank | Realm
4.7 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2016
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:11.0 | Different music today everybody, that's because this song is special. |
| 0:16.0 | It exists in part because of our show. |
| 0:19.0 | My name is Rachel Garcia and I'm a musician. |
| 0:26.0 | Rachel's the singer that you're hearing here. |
| 0:29.0 | She sent me this little by a couple of years ago. |
| 0:32.0 | She told me the longest shortest time inspired her to write it. |
| 0:35.0 | It's pretty right? |
| 0:37.0 | But there's a story behind the song. |
| 0:40.0 | It's a story that'll be familiar to a lot of you, |
| 0:43.0 | but that I've never heard told quite the way that Rachel will tell it today. |
| 0:47.0 | So you know that thing that happens when your friends with somebody |
| 0:50.0 | and one of you becomes a parent and the other doesn't? |
| 0:53.0 | That is what this song is really about. |
| 0:59.0 | My eyes, my eyes, my eyes, my eyes, my eyes, my eyes, my eyes. |
| 1:06.0 | So Rachel, Rachel is the friend who doesn't have kids. |
| 1:10.0 | When she wrote to me about two years ago, here's what she said. |
| 1:13.0 | She said, I am not a mom and I want nothing to do with being a mom. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm 29 certainly of baby having age and in a long term committed partnership. |
| 1:24.0 | But it just has never hit me. |
| 1:27.0 | I don't feel the pull, the glow, the ache for children. |
| 1:31.0 | I feel that feeling for dogs and for desserts, but not for children. |
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