Hello, Anna Sale. You are Death Sex and Money's senior supervising

producer, someone who I just started getting to work with when our show moved

over to Slate.

And one really fun part about getting to work with someone new

is to hear how some of our classic episodes

sit with people who weren't part of making it with us.

And one of the episodes that I've really liked hearing your take on

was one we made back in 2021, where we asked listeners to share stories about their romantic lives

and body size.

And you chimed in with something interesting about this episode like when you

listen to it what do you hear? I really love this episode and I just related to it so much. I really appreciated listening to people talking about what it is to have to face their own biases and things inside.

Like I live with a chronic illness,

and so the way that my body changes

and the way that it looks can fluctuate a lot,

particularly in short spaces of time. There have been times where I'm on a steroid and my

face is super puffy. And the rest of my body looks the same, but I realize I'm so anxious that my face now looks really puffy that people are going to think other things changed

I mean quite honestly a lot of living with my chronic illness has been kind of having some of the same

Realizations that the people you talk to in this

episode talk about because I think so many chronic illness people relate to that as

well both in the way that our bodies betray us but also then when you're dealing with different

like flare-ups or issues and the way that might also impact the physical and

then the way that other people are talking to you about it.

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