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fine or good, but obviously it's not always fine, and sometimes it's not even that good.

This is a podcast that gives people the space to be honest about how they really feel.

It's a place to talk about life, the good, the bad, the awkward, the complicated.

I'm Nora McEnnerney, and this is thanks for asking.

We are living in what I would gently call trying times. I talked to somebody the other day who

doesn't live in America and he said, you know what,

you guys are going through something right now.

It was the nicest way you could have put it.

You know what?

You guys are really just going through something.

We really are going through something.

I think we can all feel it.

No matter who you are, it feels like things are incredibly divided.

It feels like the social fabric is like three little threads

left. And I think that I'm not trying to minimize any of that. I feel it. I feel like a

collective anxiety on top of my own anxiety. It's like a little anxiety. Crescent has a layer. I don't know.

What's a layered food? A lasagna is a layered food. Let's start over. Oh, God.

So a few years ago, I was really struggling, just really struggling, just in general, in general,

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