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From Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia, welcome to The Heart. I'm Caitlin Prest.

This is one, a mini series.

In this season, we are bringing you stories about learning how to be alone.

In some ways, I think the way that I try to live my life is one that is pretty solitary.

Stories about finding pleasure and loneliness and solitude.

My dear self, on the occasion of your 34th birthday, I'm writing to remind you that I love you

incredibly and immovably that you are our greatest work of art. Stories that go deep

into the lessons of those experiences. Fear, futility, they may as well say, your husband cheated on you.

Now you think no one can love you, the relationships that we have with ourselves.

I believe in your inspiring power and your elegance and I wake up every day convinced that we will

build the most amazing life together. Kamala Pulagandala is a writer. She's been a regular on the

heart show this year. I'm Kamala. I like to talk to people that's like one of my biggest skills.

Being in conversation, I feel like I'm perpetually in conversation.

She's a regular member of Phoebe and NK's quarantine pod. Today is a tweet, I forget who this was,

but they're like, you know what tastes really good right now? Something cooked by anybody else.

Kamala has been thinking and writing about loneliness long before we all became trapped in our

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