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What emotion do you understand better than all the others?

I would say embarrassment.

I think I am very shameforward.

And I think, to me, it's the only emotion that you can feel as acutely right now as you did in the moment.

I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wildcard, the show where cards control the conversation.

Each week, my guest answers questions about their life, questions pulled from a deck of cards.

They're allowed to skip one question and to flip one back on me. My guest this week is writer and

showrunner Jenny Hahn. I really must insist on hope. And I do think that that is for me

the only real difference between writing stories for a young audience and for adults is a hopeful ending.

As of this summer, I am officially the parent of a teenager. And I am ready for all the beauty

and emotional messiness that this experience will bring because we all know that this stage of life

is, I don't know, I guess I'll use the word intense.

It is so intense.

The rampant insecurity about our bodies or our social status or our parents' expectations, I remember all of that.

And personally, I was just desperate to get on the other side of adolescence.

Jenny Hahn also struggled with parts of her teenage years,

but instead of locking it all away in some mental box and moving on with her life, Jenny made it

her life. Her books are a modern take on the timeless challenges of growing up. And yes, that includes

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