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On today's episode, I sit down with Aliana Michaels, who shares her story of how her happy and healthy relationship was directly affected by the national dialogue surrounding the pandemic, vaccine efficacy, and hesitancy. Alianna's upcoming poetry collection is called In Defense of Science, and it's a direct reflection on how, despite how in love she and her partner were, they ultimately chose their values over each other. And while it was one of the hardest things she's been through,

in the end, she was better off for it. And we are here. Welcome to the Seeing Other People family.

I'm so excited to have you here. Why don't you introduce yourself and who you are, what you're doing,

and most importantly, what we're here to talk about

because I'm excited. Yes, yes, me too. Thank you so much for having me. I'm Aliana Con

Michael's author of In Defensive Science, a poetry collection, and we're here to talk about how

vaccines can destroy love. And kind of the story that led up to me writing a book

about a relationship that I had that ended during the pandemic and, you know, kind of how my life

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