Amanda Stern

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where I and I w I can call the smells up.

I can um

I'm just able like my senses are very attuned.

And I I would put myself back in my childhood bed and I would um I would

I would imagine and feel that it was the night before I had to go to my dad's house.

And I would just call up those childhood feelings of panic.

And

Then I as soon as I felt a feeling, I would race to my computer and just and describe it.

Um and so that's sort of how I did it.

It was like I was translating

what I felt in my body onto the page and um just exactly what it was, exactly what it felt like.

You know, I wasn't trying to make it fancy, I wasn't trying to make it pretty, I was just literally transcribing.

And that was one that was the most difficult part about writing the book.

Was that in order to adequately convey

the experiences and sensations that I lived with, I had to actually

re-traumatize myself over and over and over just to get it right.

So that was that was rough.

Um, it was re traumatizing.

It wasn't cathartic until

the book came out and I started hearing responses.

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