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Feb 2022
1h 6m

I'm a Sugar Baby

Chris Gethard
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A graduate student getting her PhD in engineering talks about joining a sugar baby website to help pay for school. She speaks with Geth about how some of her clients just want companionship and what it was like living in "The Villages" for 6 months during the pandemic with her grandparents.

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