I know somebody who asked me if you can have anything in life what would you want and out my mouth I didn't say a college degree I said I want a home I want genuine love I want intangible things.

This is death,

this is death, sex and money.

And I'm going to need a million dollars to afford college.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

When she kissed me, he's just like she used to kiss me.

And need to talk about more.

Dale, why you had me scared to death. I'm Anna Sale.

This past May, while I was still out on maternity leave, an email in my inbox caught my eye. It was from Rashima Nelson and it was like the most

excited I've been. It was like the best email to receive. Like there several things

about it made me excited.

First of all that you were letting us know that you were graduating in a week

and you wanted us to know.

Rashima first talked with me when she was a college sophomore at Georgetown when she was

adjusting to life on campus after living in a DC homeless shelter in high school.

After that she dropped out and got married. I talked to Rashima again after she decided to end that

marriage and give Georgetown another try. Now she was writing to say that she

had been thinking about our two conversations in the days leading up to her graduation.

I had a lot of my mind and I was asking myself who was the girl that was then and just listening to everything that I had said and just how adamant I

seemed and how I was really standing up for myself and I wasn't letting a man take over my world and I was going

back to the mission that I had set out forth to. So it was like, wow, I can't believe

that I did that. Yeah, and I also thought it was interesting how you described our previous conversations as capturing you

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