PROLOGUE | The Best Valentine's Day I Ever Had
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this update-isode, we follow KP's whereabouts and goings-on since the Processing Palestine episode and the events that led to the genesis of our upcoming series: GREAT LOVE: The Gaza Monologues Revisited.
Responding to Ashtar Theatre’s global call to share testimonies from young Gazans first performed in 2010, the series features a chain of personal connections from New York to Toronto to Jordan to Athens to Beirut to Nazareth to Jenin and most importantly: to Gaza. Connections that were forged in a moment of grief and at the same time share some dark-as-hell comedy, appreciation for the sublime, a little too much wine and the most important kind of love: the kind that makes you care about people far away that you haven't met yet.
PLZ PLZ PLZ DONATE TO THE MERMAID JABER SCHOLARSHIP FUND PLZ PLZ PLZ [this is kp and she is on her knees begging you with tears in her eyes mkay] AKA the GO FUND ME we made: https://gofund.me/159b10af
Music Credits:
Simya - Muqata’a [Kamil Manqus]
Mayss Invites Xlmxhkfi (in The Ruins Of A Tender Hearts)
Mayssa Jallad - Markaz Azraq (December 6)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. It's Robin from PRX. I'm very excited to tell you that Wait for It is back for season 2. That's right, the Tribeca selected Three Time Ambie Award Winning show is back with new stories and conversations |
| 0:14.2 | about the ways we feel about weight. This season, host Ronald Young Jr. is |
| 0:18.8 | talking about grief, air travel, fat camp, and of course the word that feels inescapable right now, |
| 0:25.4 | Ozempick. |
| 0:26.7 | Guests include fat marathon runner Martinez Evans, Aubrey Gordon of maintenance phase, |
| 0:32.0 | and his sister Marilyn, |
| 0:33.6 | for a deeply personal conversation about a recent loss. |
| 0:36.9 | Subscribe to wait for it today, |
| 0:38.7 | wherever you listen to podcasts. From Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia, welcome to the heart. I'm Caitlin pressed. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay guys I am Caitlin pressed. |
| 1:00.0 | Okay guys I am here to give you a little update, a little window. |
| 1:10.0 | We're doing the time travel now. |
| 1:15.0 | The journey that you're about to go on with me begins in late October, |
| 1:21.0 | when I sent a belated birthday message to my friend, |
| 1:27.0 | Mejica. |
| 1:28.0 | Happy birthday. |
| 1:31.0 | Happy birthday. |
| 1:34.0 | Happy birthday. |
| 1:39.0 | A few days later, my friend Ollie is texting on a group thread, |
| 1:42.0 | asking for people to buy e-Sim cards for his journalist |
| 1:45.1 | friend. This is the first moment that I know that something has happened. The second moment |
| 1:51.7 | is when Mejica sends me a message back. |
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