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The Longest Shortest Time

My Best Friend's Baby

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Two friends try to figure out how to stay friends after one of them has a baby. The one without the baby hatches a secret plan. … Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! Follow us on Instagram Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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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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