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Welcome back, work in progress, friends.

We are here for part two of this incredible interview with Monica Lewinsky.

Can I offer you something?

And look, I might be wrong here.

Maybe I'm projecting my own experience.

I think when you're really in something and the uniqueness of having a human life on a public stage cannot be overstated. And people want to roll their eyes and go, oh, poor you. Nobody fucking gets how hard this is until they go through it. And I would

wager that just like where you work becomes relative, going to the Pentagon becomes normal,

going to the White House becomes normal. There is a thing that happens when you are plucked out of your life and put

in a new environment. Very similarly to my own early 20s experience, move away from all your

friends and family. You go to work on a TV show. You're working 15, 16, 17 hours a day with these people, just like you all were at the White House.

You don't really know anyone.

Your relative experience shifts.

Would you have confided in Linda Tripp if your three best friends were in D.C. with you?

No.

No.

But in D.C., the relative scale of who seemed like a friend shifts to who

you're picking out of in the pool of people around you. Yeah. You know, I talk about this with my

partner and her experiences very similarly being put on a team and then your team is your option for me my cast those are my people

for you who you're working with there those become your people you're so far away from your

actual life but you have to invest in where you are and so i get why you would need a friend it's

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