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Claire Donald

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And it's just the sense that nowhere was safe.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And this dark time was also very present in Joan's personal life.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Oh, no, John.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

John, what'd you do?

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

We are going to talk about what was going on in Joan's personal life after our break.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

So come back.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Okay, we are back.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

So the 60s are crazy.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Yeah.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

They're crazy culturally and they're crazy personally for Joan.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Oh, no.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

so she begins experiencing some strange physical and psychological symptoms she had episodes of vertigo um she also experiences emotional disassociation this sounds like hell so she feels detached from reality she later describes feeling like she was watching herself from outside of her body

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Oh, God.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

It makes me feel so uneasy.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I mean, that truly does happen to people.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Yes.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Like, what... This kind of just came... I mean, if someone told me, like, you're about to be murdered in your family, maybe this would... This just naturally is the next step.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

But, like, what is going on?

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I mean, I think she always struggled with a little bit of depression and anxiety.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I also do think the Manson murders, like...