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I had bad dreams about Weinstein during that period. I had nightmares.

You know, I was spending so much of my time on this story and reading their accounts

that it really, it really affected me as well.

Deirdre Foley Mendelssohn is a senior editor at the New Yorker magazine.

Specifically, she's my editor at the New Yorker magazine.

At one point, I also, in the reporting process,

reading the transcript of one of the women's interviews,

she described seeing him get out of a car and go into his house

and I realized reading at that moment that he was in fact my neighbor

and lived like half a block down for me.

And I walked by his townhouse in New York every day going to and from work

while we were working on this story.

It's sort of a shiver.

Yeah, good thing he didn't know about you until the very end when you were on those calls.

And quite possibly still wouldn't recognize you

though you played this incredibly important role in his life ultimately.

I'm sure he wouldn't.

One of the interesting things about being an editor is that you're always sort of the person behind the curtain.

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