Staff Pick #5: “Lina: No One’s Little Girl” (Season 4, Episode 24)

Last Day

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Last Day is turning five! From investigating America’s deaths of despair to featuring real-life stories of hope and change, the journey of Last Day has been kinda unbelievable. All the tears! All the laughter! And all of you! We’re so grateful to our loyal listeners who have come along with us for the ride. To celebrate, we are counting down five of our staff’s favorite Last Day episodes of all time. This week, you’ll hear Lina’s story introduced by Wendolyne, Lemonada’s business operations manager.

Growing up, Lina Martinez treasured holidays spent with her family. She remembers the food, the ornaments, the dancing, and — above all – her dad, who made everything warmer and brighter. Year round, her dad Luis was her person, her best friend. But when Luis fell ill shortly before Christmas, Lina could already tell her holidays were going to look different from then on. Lina shares with Stephanie what it was like to receive and lose the most important kind of love in her life, and how she makes space for her grief, even during the most “wonderful” time of the year.

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1:10.0	Hello, Last Day listeners. It's your host, Stephanie Whittles Wax. I've missed you all this summer
1:18.0	and hope everyone has been well. I'm coming to you today with some really exciting news about something we're going to
1:26.1	be doing over the next couple of months. So some of you may know this but we're
1:31.0	about to be at five years of making the show, Last Day.
1:36.2	So the first episode of the first season of Last Day launched September 25th, 2019, and little did we know at the time that we would be making
1:47.2	the show for five years. I mean at the time we planned to do one season on opioids and you know maybe explore other
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