Usually, there is a phrase in every story I edit that just promotes itself into the title. This time there were at least two, "Things will be fine in the bye and bye" and the far grimmer, "How will I hurt my child?" The stretch between the two isn't from a lack of focus, but a wealth of material. When two friends get together, as Betsy Bunn and I did, to share stories and see where they lead, you cover a lot of ground through a lot of emotional weather.

I love to tell single stories, but when one leads to another and another, as this hour in the studio with Betsy Bunn did, the trip is hard to resist.

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