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We Were Three - Ep. 3: I Am All That Is Left. Amen.

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Rachel goes back to California, to the place where she grew up and where her brother and father died, to find answers. For more information on 'We Were Three': https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/podcasts/we-were-three.html

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Here's a question that occurred to me while I was sitting next to Rachel in her

0:04.4

brother's car driving around Santa Ana, California.

0:07.6

Are you kind of hiding out here?

0:10.5

Yeah, absolutely.

0:12.6

I've been hiding out here for a while.

0:14.8

She'd been in California for a few weeks when I got here.

0:18.2

Her plan had been to start clearing out the house where her father and brother had lived.

0:23.0

But when she got to the house, she couldn't stand being in it, so she fled up to northern

0:27.3

California.

0:28.9

She wanted to be alone.

0:30.4

Did that for a few days.

0:32.4

That was awful.

0:34.0

Then she met up with friends.

0:35.4

That was better.

0:37.4

Rachel's been talking by phone and text and FaceTime with her teenage kids every day while

0:41.8

she's here.

0:42.8

But by the time we were driving around together, she hadn't been home to her family and

0:46.9

Rochester, New York for a while.

0:49.9

Grief somehow maintains a public image of mainly sadness, fragility.

0:55.9

Did grief can also be selfish, unfair, kind of an asshole.

1:01.8

Rachel is aware.

1:02.8

I don't know.

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