Episode Summary

I went to a wedding expecting discomfort and left carrying less than I arrived with.

This episode starts with a DND group during COVID, moves through a divorce I didn’t fully understand how to process, and ends years later with a forgotten cell phone in a wedding bathroom and a conversation I never expected to have.

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