The Fear Facer: An Update

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.5 • 97.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In 2019, Julia Longoria, then a Daily producer, traveled to Nashville to speak with Ella Maners and her mother, Katie Maners. Ella, 8 going on 9, was terrified of tornadoes and getting sick. So she did something that was even scarier than her fears: confront them at Fear Facers camp. We revisit her story and catch up with Ella, now 12 and in the fifth grade, who has since returned to the camp.

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0:00.0	What's that?
0:01.4	That, my dream catcher.
0:03.0	Oh, it's called a dream catcher.
0:05.0	So I guess it like catches bad dreams,
0:08.2	but hasn't been working so good.
0:10.6	Oh yeah, have you had some bad dreams lately?
0:12.4	Yes, I've had some last night.
0:14.9	Really? What did you, what did you dream about last night?
0:17.1	I don't even really remember.
0:19.3	Yeah, I always forget my dreams too.
0:21.1	I try sometimes to write them down
0:22.6	so I can remember them.
0:23.7	Do you ever do that?
0:25.3	No, ma'am, I'm still working on spelling, so.
0:29.2	Oh my god, that makes sense.
0:31.2	Yeah.
0:36.2	The New York Times, oh my god, what about the world?
0:38.2	Okay, that would probably be really hard
0:40.2	to say, Mark of Bobbar, I don't know.
0:43.2	Is that his last name, Mark of Bobbar?
0:46.2	Barbaro, yeah.
0:47.2	Oh.
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