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Hello, folks. This is Risk, the show where people tell true stories.

They never thought they dare to share.

I'm Kevin Allison, and today we're checking in again with our dear friend and colleague,

Don Jewel Fraser.

First, Don and I have a conversation about a brouhaha, she experienced over a New York

City apartment. Then our producer, Taj Easton, had a further check-in with Dawn about ways to

communicate with folks who are combative. Don, by the way,

will be launching her own podcast version of her own beloved storytelling show, going back from

a long ways back, Barbershop Stories. So look that up at barbershopstories.com, and here's Dawn in conversation with me now,

with a story we call The Squabbles.

What was going on in your life that kind of led to this moment with subletting your apartment?

Well, Eno's is 2006-ish, and I had finally graduated from graduate school, international affairs,

wanted to save the world.

And so moving to Brooklyn was the best because it was a brand new place. It was an international vibe. But I had a master's in policy. People in policy don't get paid a ton. This isn't business school. So Airbnb was a thing. It was very popular. And the place that I had in Brooklyn was stunning. It was on a tree line block, beautiful windows, and just lots of space considering the value that I was getting.

Wow. Everybody who I met was like, this is a dream. How did you find it? And I had found it through a former student who was also living in Brooklyn and just needed a place to live.

So fortunately, I was one of those people who ended up in Brooklyn, New York, in a brownstone on a tree-lined street, trying to make ends meet.

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