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Love Letters
The Boston Globe
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Meredith sits down with her sister, Brette, to tackle two family-themed letters from the Love Letters column. First, a woman feels some tension with her future sister-in-law. Second, a writer discovers that her boyfriend and her mother had a one-night-stand in the past. Should the woman confront her mom? Does the mom even remember this guy? How are they going to make it through the holidays? Send your own letter to [email protected].
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody we're back with a bonus episode of Love Letters and our |
| 0:08.4 | favorite bonus guest my sister. |
| 0:10.8 | Woo! |
| 0:11.8 | All right so one question before we get to letters. |
| 0:15.9 | So a lot of the advice column is cyclical based on East Coast weather, I think. |
| 0:24.0 | Like even though readers are all over, |
| 0:26.1 | a lot of the letters come from the East Coast |
| 0:28.2 | and at least, you know, from readers |
| 0:30.3 | that have really, you know, big seasons. |
| 0:32.8 | And this is the time of year that people are freaking out. |
| 0:36.3 | They are worried about being lonely. |
| 0:37.6 | They are worried about being trapped in a relationship |
| 0:39.8 | they might not like. |
| 0:40.7 | They are seeing January and February on the horizon as like a bleak |
| 0:45.5 | nothing zone and and you know just in the same way that in May like people go a |
| 0:51.0 | little bit like too wild like their whole lives are free all of a sudden in a way that they're not. |
| 0:55.0 | Like right now, there's attention and people have specific problems, |
| 1:00.0 | some of which are tied to holidays, but some are just the vibes and you're in a place that is same day every day sunny. |
| 1:10.0 | So I just wondered like what you've seen vibe wise from the people around you like do you think they're like you know when you like do you feel it at all and maybe it's like too soon to know but like your California people. Are they like, oh my God, it's winter is coming? |
| 1:26.3 | Okay. |
| 1:30.3 | So funny, the timing on this is very funny because |
| 1:38.4 | quite the opposite and I'll tell you why. |
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