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Sound Effect, Episode 25: Point Of No Return

Two books lay on the table, notes below list their respective names.
Brian Yeager and Amelia Bonow

"Sound Effect" is your weekly tour of ideas, inspired by the place we live. This week's show is hosted by KNKX's Kevin Kniestedt. Each week's show explores a different theme, and this week we muse over the point of no return. 

To start things off, Kevin Kniestedt talks to Buta Sing about leaving his home and family behind in India after facing religious persecution. Sing is Sikh, and members of his religion face many challenges from the largely Hindu opposition.

Then, we hear from Tracey Croisier from A Guide to Visitors. At nine years old, she was told by medical professionals that she had epilepsy. This was the point of no return for many experiences in Croisier's life — driving, a job, pregnancy. Nearly two decades later, new medical insight restored paths she thought were forever obscured.  

Finally, KNKX's Arwen Nicks brings us a story about two people facing the point of no return. 2005 would change Brian Yeager and Amelia Bonow’s lives forever. They fell in love. He wasa musician bartending at Belltown’s Lava Lounge, and she was waitressing next door at Mamma’s Mexican Kitchen. They saw each other in passing, and something was there. Sparks flew. It was a hard and fast kind of love, but a sure one nonetheless. Bonow eventually moved into Yeager’s house in Lower Queen Anne, a home they would only share with a menagerie of plants and a cat named Rooster for so long.  

This weeks news panel features Sarah Stuteville, Hanna Brooks Olson, and Mike Lewis. And don't forget to check out the Point of No Return Cocktail