Can true, full, and nuanced love truly exist across parasocial relationships? Ismatu Gwendolyn reflects on the dehumanizing nature of fame (no matter how small the audience) and reflects on their own conceptions of love (or lack thereof) as they accidentally became an influencer.

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Jazz of the episode:

Skylark x Wynton Marsalis

Feeling Good x Elvin Jones

It's Too Late Now x Wynton Marsalis

Manhattan x BLOSSOM DEARIE

Love Song From "Apache' x Coleman Hawkins Quartet

But Not For Me - Live at the Pershing, Chicago, 1958 x Ahmad Jamal Trio

'Round Midnight x Thelonious Monk

Willow Weep for Me x Ray Bryant

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14| Fame is the least humanizing kind of love.