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Jun 18
51m 35s

Friendship Crushes & Social Milestones

Jake Ernst & Simon Paluck
About this episode

This Isn't Therapy... it's a convo about friendship crushes and the social milestones. Simon discusses a reddit post about a friendship crush and
Jake teaches the lovely listeners about the social milestones: latch, leap, and launch!

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Original music composed by Kat Burns and performed by KASHKA.

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