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This is the Longest Shortest Time from WNYC.

I'm Hillary Frank.

At the end of every show, I ask you the listeners to tell me your stories of struggles

in parenthood.

And the thing that I probably hear about most, you know, more than childbirth or breastfeeding

or sleep or work is friends.

That you don't know how to find them.

Maybe you're the first of your friends to have kids and nobody gets you anymore.

Or maybe you have friends with kids, but they all live far away and you can't get it

together to talk to each other.

Today's story is about two strangers who became friends under very unusual circumstances.

And we're going to be getting to that story in just a minute.

But first, I want to tell you about this thing we're doing.

This really cool thing that can help you turn strangers into friends.

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