Six months ago, Ayesha Rascoe, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and The Sunday Story , bought a house with her best friend, Jasmin Melvin, also a journalist. Rascoe and Melvin had met as undergraduates at Howard University, and then both landed internships at Reuters after graduation. Over 15 years of friendship, while building their careers and families, they’ve seen each other through a lot.

Both women had recently gotten divorced and had been struggling with the financial and logistical strains of single motherhood; Rascoe has three kids, aged 12, 9, and 8, and Melvin’s kids are 10 and 7. Rascoe explained, “Both me and Jasmin were trying to figure it out by ourselves. I was paying thousands of dollars for a nanny — more than my mortgage. These kids have to be watched! I w

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