Maureen Callahan

If you're to listen, the timestamp, it tells you it takes 27 minutes to listen.

If you want 27 minutes of my time, you better be giving me something really good.

I mean, really effing good.

First line of Amanda Peet's piece for the New Yorker personal essay.

Quote, I told my mom everything, even when I gave my first blowjob.

Again, I referenced Tina Brown and Roseanne Barr.

Now, I'm going to summarize this piece for you.

Amanda Peete, her parents were dying on opposite coasts.

Again, this is a woman who has a lot of money and a lot of means.

Her husband's got Game of Thrones money, okay?

They're getting the best treatment, the best care money can buy.

She gets diagnosed with breast cancer.

I'm very sorry about that.

I truly am.

She is diagnosed with a very treatable kind of breast cancer that was caught very early, stage one.

That's the story.

There is no larger point to Amanda's essay

There is no original insight.

There is nothing unique about it, I am sorry to say.

This is an all too common issue facing Gen X. People are living longer.