205: Plan B

205: Plan B

Feb 1, 2002
There's the thing you plan to do, and then there's the thing you end up doing. Most of us start off our lives with some Plan A which we abandon...switching to a Plan B, which becomes our life.

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    Host Ira Glass summarizes the results of an informal poll of about a hundred people, about whether they were living their Plan A or Plan B...and recounts a moment from a short story by author Ron Carlson, called "Plan B for the Middle Class," from his book by the same name. (2 minutes) Fiction

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