Hey guys, happy Wednesday.

Thanks for listening to You Had Me at Black.

This week's story comes from Aradai.

In high school and college, she suffered from depression,

and Lynn Manuel Miranda's music became her refuge.

This is a story about survival, hope, and hunger.

Ardy shows us that joy and healing can creep up in the most unexpected places.

Stay tuned to hear her story.

I want you to breathe all this

in, is all this. This is you had me at Black, the podcast with Black

where Black millennials tell true life stories. Shh. So I have gone through like legitimately the worst year of my life and I was in

a really bad depression. The problem was that I was sick and that I was really, really sad.

And not even sad I was numb. I had gone through a really bad friend breakup and had lost someone who had been in my life for like 10 years.

And suddenly that person was gone.

And so I was just like broken, I guess, it is a way to do it and adrift like I felt like I was constantly floating in pieces

not even that I had fallen apart but that I was constantly falling apart and there were maybe

two or three things that I really was like still following and one of those things

to Samleton because I loved Lend Manuel. Like been in love with Lend Manuel since high school and had heard

about Hamilton when it was supposed to be a mixed tape.

And so he was tweeting about Hamilton.

And he was like, you know what would be really, really dope?

A mixtape about Hamilton.

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