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Episode 123. Here's to Summer.

I'm declaring it. Summer has officially began. I don't care if the kids are in or out of school.

It's time. It is time. Oh, man, is it time.

I'm ready. This was really the longest May. May is so hard. I've decided, Rina, it's just that

family life has so many moving parts. There's just always something, always something going on.

Boy, though, I have to tell you, what I am so grateful for are we've got the most amazing

listeners who have sent us amazing comments and thoughts for our new season.

But I just loved our season three.

I did too.

I feel really great about the letters we got and the questions we tackled.

You know, and it was across a huge range of things. You know, we talked about

how to get your sons to open up because boys especially can be so like sphinxes. We talked about

cutting and how to make sense of it. I was shocked when you said you wanted to do this. It was like

a cutting. Like, is this a thing? And I am blown away by the response from people who have come out who feel like someone's finally talking about this.

Yeah.

We got a lot of messages about how useful that episode was, which of course means the world to me to know that we're answering questions that are weighing on people.

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