Thanks for Being Here Martha's Letter to her College Roommate Marsie
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Three decades after graduating, Martha Zeeman wrote this letter of gratitude to Marsie, her randomly-selected college suite-mate at the University of North Carolina. After a bit of a rough start to her freshman year, Martha finally found her way thanks to the kindness and support of Marsie. This is the story of an enduring friendship and the magical surprise that was born of it 33 years later.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to thanks for being here, a short weekly pad to remind us of the many essential |
| 0:06.0 | and beautiful ways we affect one another. Every Sunday I'll read a submission from a listener of Kelly Corrigan Wonders, could be wedding vows or about |
| 0:15.5 | mitzvah toast, a eulogy or retirement speech. |
| 0:19.1 | We believe this is probably the loveliest way to tap into our better selves and remember our highest values. |
| 0:26.2 | We encourage you to share this podcast each week with one person you love, maybe someone |
| 0:30.9 | you miss and need to bring closer, |
| 0:33.0 | someone you want to feel your appreciation or admiration or both. |
| 0:38.0 | This is thanks for being here comes from a listener named Martha Zeman. |
| 0:53.4 | Dear Kelly, this is a thank you note I recently sent to my randomly selected freshman year |
| 0:58.1 | sweetmate, Marcy Cranford. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm sharing a portion of it with you now, with some added commentary after receiving a text from my son. |
| 1:06.0 | Brian is a freshman in college in London. He'll be there for at least three years. |
| 1:10.5 | When looking at a post I made of the view from his dorm, |
| 1:14.0 | Marcy noticed that it seemed to be a similar view to that of her daughter, |
| 1:18.0 | who is in London for a semester. |
| 1:20.0 | Through the wonders of modern technology, we connected our two kiddos. |
| 1:25.0 | I awoke this morning to a text with a photo of Brian and Ellen, |
| 1:29.1 | worlds colliding. |
| 1:30.8 | It got me thinking about a lot of things, how I'm closer to my college friends now at the age of 55 than I was in my 30s, |
| 1:38.0 | how the world is huge and small simultaneously, how sometimes things suck but you get to the other side and that the |
| 1:45.2 | people you meet at certain periods of life make indelible marks and we get by with |
| 1:51.0 | a little help from our friends. |
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