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From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.

I didn't want my boyfriend to come down and see me putting a piece of chicken in my mouth.

So I went into our pantry and I stood there in the dark and ate a few pieces of my black

and charred chicken and honestly felt a little weepy about it because I was like, oh, I

can't believe I'm doing this.

I'm Marin Larson and the shame-ridden chicken eater you just heard is outside assistant

editor, food correspondent, running enthusiast and newly former vegetarian Mallory Arnold.

And the path that brought her to that recent moment, sitting in a dark closet secretly

choking down overcooked poultry began eight years ago.

I went vegetarian when I was around 17.

I was so uneducated, it was just sort of a, I want to get healthy and that's the thing

to do is to go vegetarian.

So I did that when cold turkey just right away, it was not hard for me because I really

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