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So today I'm going to be talking with Emily Witt, a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine and the author of a new memoir called Health and Safety.

Yeah, I think part of the reason I wanted to write the book was just for myself.

It was so quickly forgotten and sort of, I don't know, swept under the rug.

Nobody wanted to remember it. There was something embarrassing about that summer in some ways,

and how seriously we took out. Like, it was just kind of, you know, it was like, let's not, let's just leave that.

Nobody wants to think about it again.

And I just, I felt like I needed to, for myself, just write down what had happened, kind of

in chronological order just to have it.

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