Mara Brock Akil
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353 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Mara Brock Akil’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Okay, I can do that?
Yeah.
God, let me do this over.
She's on the train.
She's on the train.
She's got her look together.
And she's headed outside the city of New York because she's ashamed that she has to take an HIV test.
Because two nights prior, after having finally gotten over her man of five years and feeling like he's not coming back, it's the first night, six months after they broke up, that she's bringing home a man.
And on the same night that she is having sexual relations with him.
For the first time after being in this long-term relationship.
There's a knock at the door.
Yep.
And it's her ex of five years.
And he tells her, you know, I have HIV and you need to go get tested.
And so the book takes place within the two weeks of that test.
And she's on that train.
And I'm like, wow, I remembered.
That was the 90s.
That was the 90s.
That was the longest two weeks of anyone's life is to wait for that result.
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