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it's my real if you needed to borrow a cup of sugar or I don't know needed someone to sign for a package for you or bring your prescription when you're sick.

Do you have those people? Are you that person for anyone?

What about if you wanted to have some spontaneous fun?

You know, the kind that doesn't require a calendar invite.

Grab a bunch of friends and play Frisbee in the park or order a pizza and watch a movie.

I'm talking about community, a group of people who enjoy each other's company, rely on each other, and create lives that are

intertwined in some way. A lot of people don't have this, but they'd like to.

Last year, the Surgeon General called L and isolation of public health crisis and

said we need relationships, so community, to live healthier, more fulfilled, more productive lives.

There are lots of ways to build community.

And on today's show, we're going to talk about one of them.

It's called co-living.

That means living among a group and sharing space

with people beyond your nuclear family, whether that space is an

apartment or a house or a building or even a city block. I think co-living is a

real return to a way that we used to live. That's Jillian Morris. She lives with

about 10 people in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Now if that just sounds like your

classic roommate situation, co-living often goes a bit beyond that.

Jillian says that generally when people are co-living, they're doing it not primarily for convenience

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