If you combine the title and tagline of this week's podcast episode, you have the last line of Ada Limón's poem, “During the Impossible Age of Everyone.”

I’ll read the full poem at the end of the episode, but for the last ten days, all I had was that line, and I kept repeating it,

People have done this before, but not us.

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