Hi, it's Meredith.

Listeners of Love Letters know that mental health is something I take very seriously,

which is why I want to tell you about season 3 of the podcast Turning Points,

Navigating Mental Health.

Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of navigating mental health. Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of

navigating mental health and the turning points that can spark lifelong changes.

Host Francis Lease, a clinical therapist, talks with psychologists, doula's, writers and experts about breakdowns, breakthroughs, and everything in between.

Turning Points, a podcast from Point 32 Health in partnership with Boston Globe Media.

Find turning points wherever you get your podcasts.

Hoodah al-Morashi was in middle school when a boy, let's call him haughty,

gave her a gift she cherished.

They were in her childhood living room.

I opened this, you know, the plastic toys or us bag and there it was.

He bought me an easy-baked oven and that was something I had told his sister that I had always

wanted but never got and he took his own money and on a trip to Toys R Us had bought this for me.

Hooda's parents really liked Hottie.

She figured that down the line, he might meet their standards as a suitor for their daughter.

But Hooda also wanted a real romance.

I want to find somebody who makes my parents happy,

who checks off all these boxes,

and who I can also have this love story that I can tell my American friends and that they will not suspect that my marriage has been arranged.

The question that would weigh on her in the years to come was this.

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