How Will I Know? / Fever

Your eyes may deceive you, your ears can betray you, but when it comes to love the nose knows. Plus - a reflection on life’s sliding doors and how we can never truly know all the versions of the people we love. This week on Snap, we kick off our FEVER series! Four weeks full of love stories that are not your typical romances... We love you Snap Nation! Catch the Fever. STORIES Smell Ya Later After Laura’s husband gets a fatal diagnosis, he promises to contact her from beyond the grave. But how will she know it’s really him? This supernatural story comes to us from our evil twin podcast, Spooked . Spooked drops weekly, listen on any podcast platform! Thank you, Laura Packer, for sharing this special story. Laura’s a storyteller in Minneapolis. Learn more about Laura at her website . Produced by Anne Ford, original score by Leon Morimoto. My Dead Mother’s Italian Lover Not long after Peter’s mother Mara dies, a stranger messages him on Facebook. His name is Francesco and he says that before she met Peter’s dad, Mara was the love of his life. Francesco starts sending Peter poetry and links to love songs, describing his romance with Peter’s mom in more and more detail. And the woman in his stories is nothing like the mother Peter knew. So Peter reaches out to Francesco for a phone call. A reflection on life’s sliding doors and how we can never truly know all the versions of the people we love. This story comes to us from Love Me, from CBC . It was produced by Peter Lang-Stanton, Cristal Duhaime and Mira Burt-Wintonick. Sound design by Cristal Duhaime. Mix engineered by Michelle MACK-lem . Featuring original music by David Drury. To hear more stories about the messiness of human connection, check out Love Me wherever you get your podcasts. Season 17 - Episode 6 Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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How Will I Know? / Fever is an episode from Snap Judgment by Snap Judgment and PRX.

This episode is 53:10 long.

This episode was published on Feb 12, 2026.

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