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You Had Me at Black

Rewind: Saratonin

You Had Me at Black

You Had Me at Black

Society & Culture, Black Stories, Personal Journals, Arts, Performing Arts, Black Storytelling, Storytelling Podcast, Documentary, Black History Month, Black Podcast, Black Voices

4.0982 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

As we gear up for a new season, let's revisit some of our favorite stories from the past. Newly single after a 5-year relationship ended, she decides to try a new style of dating, and learns more about love than she did in the 5 years prior.

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Welcome to a special rewind episode of You Had Me at Black.

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I'm Brittany Abrahams.

0:07.0

Today's rewind comes from Sarah.

0:10.0

After separating from her boyfriend of five years, she decided to try a new kind of relationship. You're listening to you had me at black black Light in the heart of the city.

0:35.0

Man, listen, man.

0:38.0

Yeah.

0:40.0

This is you have me at Black black and we live baby.

0:45.0

My five year relationship comes to an end after I decided to get an abortion.

0:52.0

So I'm forced to move back to Chicago

0:54.2

and really deal with myself and show up to myself

0:57.6

in ways I happen before because after this breakup,

1:01.3

you know, I really felt like I was dying I felt like the life I

1:05.6

imagined for myself was just it wasn't existing anymore so I had to really get myself together and I started meditating and doing yoga. I was like really

1:16.7

special bats. I became a vegetarian and I stopped having sake. So six months into this, my cousin from DC calls me

1:26.0

and she's like, hey Sarah, I went to this concert last night,

1:29.0

it was really, really good,

1:31.0

and I think you should go in Chicago. I'm like all right I'll go and I

1:35.5

go to this concert with my friends we were like just talking in the show and I

1:41.0

turned around and I saw this beautiful man he was like sunshine walking into a room.

1:47.0

He walked out on stage and I said, oh my God, who is that?

1:51.0

It felt like my spirit had jumped out of my body and my friend said it was

1:57.2

let's call him John for now and I said oh my God, I love him. Like, I never knew I lived another lifetime till right now. Like, I've had this man's babies before I've had his children before. I loved him. And they were like, like girl you sound crazy so he starts performing

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