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I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to Ask Amanda Anything, where you can send your questions in, whatever they may be, and I will just answer them. They will come to me through Chris,

but primarily through my substack or through

my website. And as a reminder, subscribers to said substack do get priority in their questions.

Do you want to add anything, Christopher?

Yes, of course. Well, I will be prodding and playfully poking Amanda in response to these questions to try and draw out her best answers.

So I think we're ready.

Last time I tried to give you a lightning round bonus question, and you said it was too big of a question for lightning round.

I don't believe in lightning. Like lightning round questions are like, what's your favorite color?

Not like what was your high school experience. Okay, well, the question is, which is what we're going to start with,

do you look back fondly on your Jesuit education?

So it's...

That is a complicated question.

I will say that at the time that, so, you know, you're asking if I'm looking back, at the time, I, coming from having zero experience with organized religion, I was not raised in organized religion.

Coming into contact with organized religion inside an academic context was jarring for me. It was also alienating for me because I felt like the rest, much of the rest

of the student's body had come from, you know, Catholic upbringings and Catholic schools.

And so it was all par for the course, whereas I felt like I was in a cult. And I was just like, why is there a cult at

my school? And why am I being asked to delve into like cult rituals when I don't believe in

them? That felt really uncomfortable to me.

And I didn't understand, I guess I was frustrated by the idea that like to go to a private

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