S9E13: Feels Like Home
Love Letters
The Boston Globe
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
One day in June of 2014, at the height of the Syrian civil war, Rami made a daring escape from an ISIS militia. But that meant he had to leave his home country, maybe forever. His journey from that moment — into Turkey, then to California, and then to Rhode Island — was something he never could have imagined. Neither was the love story that came out of it. Email us at [email protected]. You can also send relationship questions to Meredith and sign up for Love Letters updates by texting 617-744-7007.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Meredith Goldstein. So, We've heard a lot of stories this season about how and where people find help as they try to make sense of relationships themselves and the world. |
| 0:38.0 | One thing I love about these narratives is that the assistants often came from unexpected places like exes, pro-athletes, animals, even the government. |
| 0:48.0 | For today's story, we're going to interpret the help theme in a slightly different way. |
| 0:53.7 | I'm going to introduce you to two people who forged a bond over a shared interest in helping others. |
| 0:59.7 | Two people who, on the surface, appeared to have little in common. Two people who grew up some 5,000 miles apart in completely different |
| 1:08.1 | cultures and found one another in a most unlikely way. Two people named Kate and Rami. |
| 1:15.0 | Kate and Rami. |
| 1:17.0 | Kate and Rami are in their mid-30s. |
| 1:21.0 | They live in a quiet room. Kate and Rami are in their mid 30s. |
| 1:24.0 | They live on a quiet wooded street in Northern Rhode Island. |
| 1:27.6 | At their request, we're using only their first names |
| 1:30.1 | to protect their privacy. |
| 1:32.3 | They both work for nonprofit organizations. For the purposes of this story, |
| 1:37.2 | one of the organizations is especially important. It's called Odyssea. It's a Rhode Island-based NGO that's helped millions of children around the world |
| 1:46.2 | avoid starvation and malnutrition. |
| 1:49.4 | We'll come back to Odyssea later on because it's a pretty major character in the story. |
| 1:53.8 | For now, just remember the name. |
| 1:59.3 | First I want to tell you about Kate and Rami and where they come from. |
| 2:03.2 | I'll start with Kate, who was born in Rhode Island |
| 2:05.6 | and spent most of her early life and young adult years there. |
| 2:09.4 | I grew up in a suburb in North Providence, so middle class, we had Sunday dinners. |
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