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Hi, everybody.

I recently did an Instagram live with Lena Dunham, who probably needs no introduction,

but she was the creator, writer and and star of the HBO television series Girls from 2012 to 2017, for which she received several Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe Awards.

She also directed several episodes of girls and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for

outstanding directing of comedy series. Prior to girls, Lena also wrote directed and starred

in the semi-autobiographical independent film called Tiny Furniture, for which she won an

Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Now, most recently, Lena has written a book throughout the coronavirus pandemic called Verified

Strangers.

It's a serialized book in which she released a chapter or to a day and even let readers

who read it on Vogue.com choose what would happen to the main characters, which is really

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