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The Train Station
Season 3 · Episode 4

The Train Station

Now married, Paulina moves in with Bobby’s family in Orange County and is met with a host of expectations.

Foretold · Sue Horton, Helen Li, Mike Heflin, Faith Pinho, Alex Higgins, Avery Trufelman, Asal Ehsanipour, Jazmín Aguilera, Lauren Raab, Heba Elorbany, Ethel Brooks, Alex PGSV, Vadim Kolpakov

May 2, 202345m 4sExplicit

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Show Notes

Now married, Paulina moves in with Bobby’s family in Orange County and is met with a host of expectations: cooking, cleaning, serving, working at the psychic shop and having children. This kind of family dynamic has helped keep the Romani culture alive across the centuries. But it still catches Paulina by surprise.

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Dive deeper: There is no monolithic “Romani American experience,” not even in California — there are a multitude of them. See opinion pieces by Romani writers in conjunction with the Foretold podcast here.

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