Hey, welcome to you had me at Black.

I'm Martina Abraham's Alunga.

This week's story comes from Sarah.

Newly single after a five-year relationship,

she decides to try a new style of dating and learned more about love

than she did in the five years prior. So you guys may have noticed that this

season sounds

season in the past, and it's because we recorded this season over Skype.

We've never done that before.

But doing so allows us to capture stories from anywhere,

which means we get more stories from people of many

more walks of life but it also means that we have less control over our audio quality. So this story will have some scratchy moments but we just

thought it was too good to pass up and not feature in the season so we thank you for

bearing with us and before we get into the story we also want to say thank you thank you thank you thank you to everyone who has supported us so far by contributing to our show at you had me at black.com

slash 100. Our goal is to receive a hundred donations of ten dollars each week through

May 16th and I've said this so many times, but we are an independent

show and we're 100% volunteer run and self-funded. And that's really given us freedom to work on stories that are real and

raw and impactful but it comes with some challenges too which limits you know how many

stories we can produce

and how often.

And our mission is to reclaim the black narrative.

And that is huge and it requires a village and resources, people and time and quite frankly coins.

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