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Jul 2020
50m 20s

What Would It Take For You to Come Out?

Esther Perel Global Media
About this episode

Four years in, she can't admit she's attracted to her girlfriend, and her family still doesn't know.

Programming note: This conversation was recorded before the COVID-19 lockdown.

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