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Kate Casey is a question asker. She loves learning the details of other people's lives.

I was this weird kid that used to take out my mom's yearbooks and ask her about everybody in the yearbook.

Like, okay, so 10th grade year, who is Chris?

And what street did she live on?

What were her parents' names?

Did she have siblings?

What did her parents do?

Why?

Why were you so interested in the yearbook in, like, the people from her from her past well i felt like a lot of the stories about the people that she knew and the way she interacted with them was almost like

giving me more puzzle pieces to my mom's own identity kate never really figured out her mom

her dad was even more of an enigma. Now she hosts the

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