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Hey, everyone. We've got a bit of a sad one here today.

We just found out that Michelle Debrowski passed away last night after a long battle with cancer.

Michelle was one of our first storytellers and a great friend of the show, and we're devastated by the loss.

Michelle described herself as a lawyer, a nerd, and a comic.

She was well known in the comedy world, not just as a great comedian, but as someone who worked hard to get other comics exposure and stage time.

She was starting to explore storytelling right around the same time that Brian and I were talking about starting the Story Collider,

and she was one of the first people that we talked to for ideas and critiques about how to make the show work.

She went on to perform at one of our very first events where she told a beautiful story of love gone wrong in a biophysics lab. When we launched

the podcast, we knew that this was the perfect story. And so hers was the very first story on the

Story Collider podcast. And so again, we're incredibly sad to hear of her passing and in her memory

here's that story.

So it's true.

I am now a lawyer.

I also do a lot of comedy,

but I've had a million different careers,

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