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Submit ReviewYou have to give it to some elected representatives—they really will respond to the letters you send. Or at least, Alan Simpson did when my boyfriend (now husband) Arthur sent a plea for help. We were in love, but I was a reporter in New York and he studied wildlife in Wyoming. I didn’t think it could work. He did. And he thought that if a U.S. Senator intervened, our relationship could turn around.
That’s how I wound up in the kitchen of Alan and Ann Simpson, getting advice on maturity, commitment, and of course, sex.
This episode originally aired in 2014.
Correction: During span.org/video/?22097-1/thomas-second-hearing-day-1-part-2">the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill testified that Thomas described porn movie scenes to her. They did not watch pornography together as former Sen. Alan Simpson said in our interview.
A story about what Alan Simpson, an expert on the federal deficit, taught me about love—and how it changed everything.
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A story about what Alan Simpson, an expert on the federal deficit, taught me about love—and how it changed everything.
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