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Support for Forum comes from Broadway S.F. presenting Parade, the musical revival based on a

true story. From three-time Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown comes the story of Leo and

Lucille Frank, a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Georgia. When Leo is accused

of an unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice,

and devotion.

The riveting and gloriously hopeful parade plays the Orphium Theater for three weeks only, May 20th through June 8th.

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From KQED. From KQED. From KQED, public radio in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.

Coming up on forum, a close friendship can be one of the most fulfilling and most challenging relationships of our lives.

In their book, Big Friendship, How We Keep Each Other Close, writers and longtime friends Aminatousoe and Anne Friedman share what it really takes to maintain their meaningful bond, including how race plays out in their relationship

and how going to therapy together helped save their friendship. And we want to hear from you.

What have you learned from your big friendship, or even one that didn't make it? Join us after

this news. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. I don't know too many people who go to therapy to revive a fading friendship,

but that's what friends Aminatu So and Anne Friedman did.

And the rarity of that step is part of the problem, they say.

A close and honest friendship that transcends life phases or emotional shifts requires work.

And yet when there's tension or misunderstanding, it can be really hard to do the work to address it.

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