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Thank you so much.

You think you know me, you don't know me well at all.

Think you know me you don't know me well.

You think you know me, you don't know me well.

Leto, little, little, little.

A little, little.

A little.

Before we get into the second half of J.E.'s story, I asked them to read the article they wrote about losing 11 loved ones during the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre. The article was published by

Vanity Fair on October 29, 2018.

A link to their article can also be found in the episode notes.

The first time I went to Tree of Life Synagogue this year.

It was to say a prayer for the dead.

It was February, a week after I had moved back to Pittsburgh from Brooklyn, and my mother

requested that I accompany her to show support. We were at Temple for the customary morning

service, Shahri. And when the time came, we recited the mourners cottage, a prayer to memorialize

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