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If you had to leave your life behind and take only the things you could carry,

what would you choose?

On today's bonus episode, we introduce you to ephemeral producer Trevor Young,

whom you'll hear more from this season.

Trevor recently had the chance to visit his grandmother, a professional artist based in Malibu,

California.

Over five decades, she amassed an impressive body of work,

paintings, sketches, drawings, illustrations. She was also an avid art collector. And then, in 2018,

she lost all of it in the horribly destructive wildfires that engulfed nearly two million acres of

California that year.

Well, almost all of it.

Honestly, if it wasn't from my neighbor, I would be dead.

It was 1 o'clock in the morning.

The phone rang, and everything was going fast. The phone lines were going down,

the electric lines were going down. And she said, the fires jumped the freeway. We haven't much time.

And that's when I packed everything, and she's absolutely right. We didn't have much time.

When I got down to the end of the driveway or the road, there it was, just blazing.

That's my grandma.

Her name is Yvonne Sherbach, and she's been a professional artist and educator her entire adult life.

She's worked and lived most and educator her entire adult life.

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