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The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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When 9-year-old Meera was adopted from Korea, there were lots of new things that would take some getting used to… starting with her new mom’s exotic pet. To join the conversation, go to longestshortesttime.com! Sign up for our newsletter. Follow us on Instagram. This episode is brought to you by Google Play, Honest Tea, Grove Collaborative, Burrow (code: LONGSHORT75), and Land’s End (code: SCHOOL40). Use the links here for a special discount.

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0:00.0	Some days I think to myself, if I'm so serious about wanting to be a mom, should I just
0:12.2	do it?
0:13.2	Just drive over to an adoption agency, take a number, come home with a kid, buy them a
0:18.6	bed, invite them to call me mom.
0:22.2	That's what today's guest did.
0:24.2	When she was ready, she just jumped in.
0:27.2	I taught my kids how to jump into a river from a high cliff.
0:34.2	But you know, my first thing is you check out the bottom and make sure there's no rocks
0:38.6	underneath where you're going to jump.
0:40.7	And then you just climb back up the cliff, overcome the fear and jump in.
0:44.9	And that's sort of an analogy for my whole life.
0:48.2	Make sure there's nothing that's going to hurt you at the bottom of your jump and
0:52.4	go and jump in and just see where it takes you.
0:56.2	So adopting a kid is like that cliff in some ways.
0:59.4	I accept that.
1:00.4	I don't think I checked the water first.
1:04.7	This is the longest shortest time.
1:06.4	I'm Andrea Salenzi.
1:07.4	Today, we're going to hear from Gretchen, a 70-something retiree who listens to our show,
1:13.2	about what it's like to dive into parenthood without checking for the rocks.
1:18.4	Also known as every parenting story ever told.
1:23.0	Can you ever check the water though?
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