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Nicole Hill

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
877 total appearances

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This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

You don't want to be Scarlett O'Hara's maid.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

That's exactly it.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

So I was sort of like, oh, man, I see them in the background being like porters and maids and things.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

And I would sort of picture like them getting on a train there in New York City.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

They get on the train, they go home.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

And then I was like, and then what?

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

I always remember the first thing I noticed is a woman in a bathing suit and they're saying like pretty hot A or something like that.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

And then on the side, they're talking about, you know, this baseball player that they'd run out of town because he'd been talking wild and they're talking about voting.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

And then I keep flipping through and they're talking about dating and they're talking about people are giving one another advice.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

The paper had an advice column.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

It was called the Court of Afro Relations.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

And they have like a picture of a judge.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

And so you write in and the judge tells you, like gives you advice for how you should handle it.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

And so there is a woman and she is married and her sister is in town and her sister is seeing a married man.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

I might be conflating two stories, but there was some type of confrontation at church between the mistress and the wife.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

And it involved an umbrella.

This American Life
885: Bless This Mess

An umbrella at church.