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From KQED.

From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Magrigal.

Now that my children are nine and six, I look back at their baby photos, and of course I see their current selves in those baby pictures.

The shape of an eye, a hint of a personality, an upper lip.

And of course, we can do this with ourselves, too,

looking back on old throwback Thursday pictures.

But is there actual continuity in who we are?

Not physically, but on the inside.

Do you feel like you're the same person you've always been,

or does the year of five or ten or 20 years ago feel like a stranger?

As we've returned to old friends and family this week, today we're joined by New Yorker writer Joshua Rothman to discuss his magazine feature, Are you who you used to be?

That's all coming up next after this news.

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