Abby Wambach

We're going to have to even the scales by leaning heavy on the overreacting side for a while.

So you know my villain origin story, which is that I didn't cry for 20 years.

And it was like a joke in my family.

And I would try to fake cry sometimes so that I appeared to be human.

Funerals and stuff.

To me, crying is what happens when something happens

finally feels true enough, it doesn't have to do with sadness or happiness.

I can't attach it to a particular emotion.

It's when I'm in the presence of something that makes me feel like I was never crazy.

That's your thing.

I think that's a lot of people's thing.

Yeah.

So it was just being in the presence of something that felt true enough and

Also, I think any woman who has been in the church for long enough and over and over and been just nonexistent, like not being able to see your own story or your own self anywhere, when you're in the middle of a big ass mystery,

and somebody finally like walks in, like you're in a courtroom.

Okay.

I talked to Abby about this.

I've been writing about it recently, but like your whole life, you're like in a courtroom and you're, you're on the stand as the defendant, you've put yourself there and you're also the judge and you're also the, you're like the jury and you're everybody.

Right.

But you, yourself is on stand and it's,