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Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. This is a dumb.

Okay, this is a difficult episode and a little different.

We've been putting a lot of effort into the coverage of the war

between Israel and Hamas, and there's a lot coming down the pike

in terms of our standard dispatchy analysis and explainers.

But I wanted to also include the occasional personal story

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