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Speaker 1: This season, we're bringing you stories about people finding their

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Speaker 1: you'd never before even considered. For this episode of On

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Speaker 1: the Job something a little different love stories, stories of

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Speaker 1: people who found jobs that led them to the person

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Speaker 1: that they would fall madly in love with. We have

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Speaker 1: four stories today, from a young couple who became local

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Speaker 1: legends after their lives collided at a cracker barrel, to

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Speaker 1: workplace romance, today I proudly share with you these stories

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Speaker 1: of love on the job. For our first story, Bayla

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Speaker 1: something a little different here. Instead of me interviewing them,

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Speaker 1: I had them interview each other. What led you to

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Speaker 1: This summer ten years ago, I was managing an art

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Speaker 1: I had already quit my real job in New York.

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Speaker 1: And then I got the call and they're like, did

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Speaker 1: Katrina Nelson and I work at Cracker Barrel. Well, one

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Speaker 1: of them. Kat's husband, Travis, was actually at work when

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Speaker 1: Cracker Barrel shared the picture. Then their pr reached out

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Speaker 1: Four years later, they're still happy. Everything is really really great.

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Speaker 1: a big change. You look really sad. Oh everything is

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Speaker 1: For our next story, we go to Philadelphia to meet Amanda.

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Speaker 1: I'm Amanda Fight for O'Brien and I write about and

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Speaker 1: Do you still think you're figuring stuff out? Absolutely? Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you ever completely. You know, I still

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Speaker 1: always me. No, I'm I talk nice about you. Here

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