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791: Math or Magic?
Tobin Low
Act One, "10 Things I Require About You." So we're going to start off the show today with someone who is very much in the math camp, and who finds herself challenged by someone who could not disagree more.
The math person-- her name is Zarna Garg. Her story starts when she was in her 20s. She was single, living in Cleveland, and the fact that she was single totally bothered her.
The magic of math pdfThis was in the late '90s, by the way.
Zarna Garg
You know, those years were the peak years of the TV show, Friends. Do you remember that show?
Zarna Garg
That show was the scariest show to me.
Zarna Garg
Because no one was ever getting married.
They were dating, they were not dating, they were dating, they were on a break, they were off the break, then they were dating other people within the same friend group. Like, to somebody like me, who came from the world that I came from, that was a horror show.
Tobin Low
Zarna moved to the US on her own when she was 16, leaving behind her family in India and a likely arranged marriage.
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