<p>People ​so close to each other, ​in ​extremely intimate situations​,​ who are also a million miles apart.
</p><ul><li>Prologue: Valerie Kipnis tells Ira about riding the subway, shoulder-to-shoulder with someone she knows quite well, pretending she doesn’t see him. (8 minutes)</li><li>Act One: How much can you trust whether somebody who you think is close to you really is close to you? Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.’s been thinking about that question since a recent visit with some of his childhood friends in Sierra Leone. (37 minutes)</li><li>Act Two: Comedian Tig Notaro has the story of someone as close as her actual bedside yet who, in another way, is impossibly far away. (9 minutes)</li></ul><p>Transcripts are available at <a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/794/transcript">thisamericanlife.org</a></p>

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