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Please welcome Kate Vagan.

Welcome to the show.

It's going to be here.

Thank you very much for being here.

And thank you for sharing your story.

I mean, this is a book that was based off an article

that you wrote.

And just to give it some context, you

were yourself a college athlete.

And you realized that college life is not as fun as I guess

it seems like in American pie movies.

And you wrote stories about that.

What was it from your story that made you

want to do more research and write about these?

Yeah, well, when I played Hoops at the University of Colorado,

I tried to quit my freshman year.

And I had a ton of anxiety around it.

It wasn't really something I'd processed

until I read the headlines about Maddie's story.

And I dug deeper into her story.

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