Me Minus Me

This American Life

社会与文化

2022-08-26

55 分钟
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When a fundamental part of yourself changes dramatically, are you still who you thought you were? Prologue: Guest host Bim Adewunmi talks to Mona Chalabi about why she sometimes feels like an imposter in her own home. (9 minutes) Voice Over: Sandy Allen tells the story of learning to play an instrument that suddenly sounds very different — his own voice. (19 minutes) Me Minus You: Writer Marie Phillips has a short story about a strange man in a parking lot, offering to grant one wish. (11 minutes) One Pill Made Me Small: When Karla Cornejo Villavicencio decided to make a change that had the potential to alter who she’s known herself to be for many years, she didn’t know who would emerge. (17  minutes)
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  • A quick warning.

  • There are curse words that are unbeeped.

  • In today's episode of the show.

  • If you prefer a beeped version, you.

  • Can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org.

  • From WBEZ Chicago, it's this American Life.

  • I'm Bim Adewon, me sitting in for Ira Glass.

  • Do you know what the square footage of your, of your home is?

  • Oh, God, Bim, how could you ask me that, you monster?

  • I'm sorry, that's my friend Mona.

  • Mona bought a house after saving for 10 years and she has a lot of complicated feelings about that house.

  • For the majority of her life, she's thought of herself as a person who doesn't have money.

  • That's what makes her her, no matter the actual reality.

  • It's been that way since she was a kid.

  • I went to a school and just up the street was another school that was a private school that was called Bancrofts and we all used to call it Wancrofts because I think there was just this understanding that those rich kids were not like us and they weren't like us because I think even when you're like 11 years old, you know that the future ahead of them is just smoother, it just has less friction in it.

  • And I think we resented them even then for that fun fact.

  • We went to an all girls school and they called us the Virgin Megastore, which is also pretty accurate, I would say.

  • The Virgin Megastore, yeah.

  • So accurate.

  • Children are so witty and horrible.