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Consider This from NPR

BONUS: 'It's OK That We're Alive'

Consider This from NPR

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4.26.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

What do you do after you've survived a mass shooting? In this episode of NPR's Embedded podcast, we hear the staff at the Capital Gazette newspaper return to work after losing five of their colleagues.

Trauma reveals itself in unexpected ways, coworkers struggle to figure out how they fit together as a team, and the staff grapples with the question: Is the newspaper that existed before the shooting the same one that exists after?

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Auree Shapiro and we've got a Sunday bonus episode for you.

0:04.0

This one comes from our colleagues at NPR's Embedded Podcast.

0:08.1

They are in the middle of an ambitious series right now that took years to report and we're

0:12.6

going to drop you in at the second episode.

0:15.7

Here's Embedded Host, Kelly McEvers.

0:17.7

Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers and this is Embedded from NPR.

0:25.3

I just want to say there's some strong language in this episode and if you haven't heard

0:31.9

the first episode in our Capitol Gazette series, you might want to go back and listen to that.

0:38.4

In that episode, we told you about a mass shooting on June 28, 2018 at the Capitol Gazette

0:45.4

in Annapolis, Maryland.

0:48.1

And you heard Selene Sanfalee, a reporter who survived the shooting.

0:53.4

She was on CNN the day of the attack.

0:56.3

That night, Selene was also interviewed by police.

1:00.6

Then she got picked up by her parents.

1:03.5

Who suggested they all go out to eat?

1:11.0

And that was just the way that my mom was reacting was like, let's make it better.

1:15.4

Let's just try and push on to be normal.

1:18.4

I mean, they just didn't know what to do.

1:22.0

Selene was obviously not ready to be normal.

1:25.8

She was still going over the terrible thing that had just happened, thinking she was about

1:30.0

to die, watching one of her colleagues die.

1:34.5

And then you have to look at the menu and decide, like, do you want to drink?

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