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That's it for this week's show. I'm Randa Abdelfattah.

Next week on our series, History of the Self, we take on modern love.

This episode was produced by me.

Our music was composed by Ramtin and his band, Drop Electric, which includes Anya Mizani, Naveed Marvi, Sho Fujiwara.

Thanks for listening.