Hey, I'm very excited to share that our fellow radiotopia show, The Stoop, is back with a new season. In case you didn't know, the Stoop is a place to hear vulnerable stories that highlight the diversity of blackness.

Through history, storytelling, experts, and opinions,

there is no conversation that's too difficult to be told.

O's Lila and Hanao are award-winning storytellers and journalists and this season it's all about

Black Love but we're not talking Love's stories but stories about traveling alone

obsessions black love scenes in film and breaking down the generational patterns that keep us stuck.

It's all love on the stoop, as they celebrate their 100th episode by Deconstructing Love.

Join them every other Thursday wherever you get your

podcast and follow them on Instagram at the Stoop Podcast.

From Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia.

Welcome.

To the heart.

I'm Caitlin pressed.

What you're about to do. I'm Caitlin Pressed.

What you're about to hear is the third episode of a series that my friend Jess Shane made.

The reason why I picked the third episode is because it tells the story of a certain kind of intimacy. It's a kind of intimacy and a kind of

boundary confusion that I am very familiar with.

It's the intimacy that develops when you have set out to document somebody else's life experience.

Up until very recently,

when I did a series with my sister,

where we realized that boundaries would save our relationship. I basically treat every single person on the

face of the earth with the degree of intimacy that most people reserve exclusively for best friends, family members, and life

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