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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday,

May 9th, the Emotional Gold Digger Edition.

I'm Christina Kauderucci, a staff writer at Slate, and host of the Slate Podcast Outward.

Hi, I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and co-host of Thirst Aid Kit. And I'm Marsha Chattlin, a history professor at Georgetown University.

And Marsha, you have a little news, don't you?

You're taking a year off from teaching?

I am. I was very fortunate to be named a Carnegie fellow,

which means I get a Wimbledon size check

so that I can take the year

to start a new book project about first-generation college students.

That's amazing.

Congrats.

Thank you.

So before we get into this week's episode, we got a response from the subject of the New York Times

article women did everything right then work got greedy sent us a response to

our segment her name is Daniellea Jampell. I've been emailing with her.

She had a lot of really interesting things to say so I want to read part of what she sent me.

She writes, I had a pretty strong reaction to your comment that sometimes you look at couples with the setup I have with my husband and wonder why can't we just be less rich and have more gender equity?

My reaction really surprised me because I had read hundreds of comments online,

most of which were not particularly complementary, and those didn't phase me at all. But your

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