Hi everybody, it's Elise Spiegel and Hannah Rosen from Invisibilia.

And today we are bringing you a between season's bonus episode, because we like you.

We're going to try to do these every couple of months, so keep an eye out.

This bonus features our first ever live event.

We partnered with this awesome DC-based storytelling group called Story District

to explore a theme that might be familiar if you listen to the last season.

The in-between.

Basically, we put out this call requesting story submissions about living in the in-between,

and we got a bunch of very beautiful stories of people charting their own path in a world full of

absolutes. Also, Hannah's got a story about an unexpected identity crisis and how she resolved it.

So, let's get started.

Alex remembers the brochure for the conference.

It was glossy and had the name Pulitzer on the front.

Pulitzer is a very powerful word to someone who wants to be a journalist,

especially when it's paired with other important sounding words, like crisis reporting,

or national press club. Here's Alex.

Said like which editors would be there and who was talking like, you know, editors from the times

and things, so yeah, it was, I mean, it was a good opportunity, I think, like, to introduce myself.

Like, I want them to know who I am. Like, I want them to know my name.

Alex had been trying to work her way up the journalism food chain for a couple of years,

and she'd have some success. She'd written some small features and travel stuff.

These didn't work, but not exactly the kind of hard-hitting journalism she aspired to,

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