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The Excerpt

SPECIAL | Love, marriage and disability

The Excerpt

USA TODAY

News, Daily News

4.11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Squirmy and Grubs are not your typical YouTube stars. One is them is able-bodied. The other is not. How they navigate the challenges that dichotomy presents is the point. So is how normal their lives as an interabled couple really are. The story of Hannah and Shane Burcaws’ relationship and others like it is captured in their new book, "Interabled: True Stories about Love and Disability." They joined The Excerpt to talk about what they hope abled couples understand about interabled love. (This episode originally aired on January 22, 2025.)

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Hello and welcome to the excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today it's Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025, and this is a special episode of the excerpt.

1:29.3

Squirmie and grubs are not your typical YouTube stars.

1:32.2

One of them is able-bodied, the other is not.

1:36.7

How they navigate the challenges that dichotomy presents is the point.

1:41.4

So is how normal their lives as an inter-abled couple really are. Among the people that do not believe our relationship is real, because I am disabled and Hannah is not,

1:50.0

there is a large opinion that I was very, very rich when Hannah met me.

1:58.0

And that was why, that was the real reason why she reached out and began a

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