A Classic RISK! episode from our early years that first ran in August of 2013, when DC Pierson, Selena Coppock, Brad Lawrence and Nina Davis shared stories of love and loss.

🎙️Radio Story: Let Me Sleep On It by Brad Lawrence

In his youth, Brad finds and loses love with a fellow bookstore employee. Later, after marrying someone else, he sees his feelings for his fellow employee were just a crush, and that real love allows for making mistakes.keywords: crushes, love, marriage, relationships, youth

🎤Live Story: In the Belly by DC Pierson

As a nerdy virgin in high school, DC and his friend’s girlfriend become friends and have an affair in which he only kisses her stomach until eventually she goes down on him spontaneously and breaks up with her boyfriend. 

keywords: teenage, high school, affair, sexual exploration, cheating, relationships, youth, virgins

🎙️Radio Story: Remember You Like a Child by Nina Davis

At 14, Nina fell in love with a boy while on vacation. Decades later, she finally found him again. He’d been through homelessness and heroin addiction. Now, he was married with a child.

keywords: long lost love, lost and found, reuniting, young love

🎤Live Story: Complete by Selena Coppock

In her freshman year of college, Selena fell head over heels in love with a young man who had already graduated. It was never meant to be, but years later Selena got to share with him how much he’d meant to her.

keywords: love, dating, college, recent graduate, reconnection, closure, support, self love, self belief, confidence, unrequited love

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