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Amanda Gohmann, welcome to the Daily Social Distance Show.

Thank you so much for having me, I'm super excited.

I'm the one who should be excited because I mean, 2021 kicked off with a bang.

It's been a whirlwind for everybody, but I think for you more than most people, it has

been extra whirlwindy, which is a word I trademarked you can use one day if you'd like to

turn one of your poems.

You went from not just being notable because you read a poem, the youngest ever inaugural

poets, but also because of what the poem meant to people, because of the inspiration behind

it, because of how people felt after they heard what you did.

What has it been like for you?

Just in this little period, since the inauguration, what has your world been like?

My world has been crazy.

I mean, it's been turned upside down.

I mean, when I was writing the poem, I knew it was a historic moment.

I knew it was an important moment, which is why I wanted to do just service, but I wasn't

really paying attention to the ways in which my own personal life might change.

I went, I did my job at poem, I walked off and just kind of expected everything to be

the same.

And then I remember trying to open my Instagram just to look at other people's posts

in all of my apps and just crashed, because of all the followers that were just flocking

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