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Welcome to the next big idea. I'm Rufus Griskem. Have you ever been brought to tears by a TV

commercial? Do you relish rainy days? Are your favorite songs sad ones? If you answered yes to any

of those questions, then you, my friend, know the power of the bitter sweet. It's a feeling and

emotion, a way of being, that next big idea club curator and my dear friend Susan Kane explored

in her number one Neurotimes bestseller, Bitter Sweet, How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole.

I spoke with Susan about the book in April 2022 and it remains one of my favorite conversations

that we've had on this show. Certainly one of the most moving. So today we're sharing it again.

I hope it gives you goosebumps.

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Today, Susan Kane on Loving Sad Songs, the problem with normative sunshine and embracing the

power of the bitter sweet.

My freshman year of college, I fell in love. For the first time, Liz, head over heels,

puppy love, I skipped around campus, floated, lungs full of helium.

Sophomore year, she ended it. I remember lying on the floor of the shower,

water running, crying, heaving for what felt like hours. This I thought is what bedrock feels like.

Maybe when I run out of tears, I can build something on this. That moment was, I think,

the beginning of my adulthood to some degree. It was a birthing. It hurt. It felt like it very

nearly killed me, but it didn't. And in the months that followed, it made everything sharper,

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