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Meghan Daum

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
144 total appearances

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This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

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This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

Today's show is a rerun.

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

Act One, Act One.

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

So Alexa Young says that she never meant for Moss Hart's autobiography, Act One, to be a blueprint for her life.

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

But looking back on the events of what happened over decades, that seems to have been the case.

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

Really, you consciously followed him there.

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

And did that work?

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

At some point, did you start to get a crush on him?

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

How would this thought manifest itself in daily life?

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

You'd be out on dates and just think, hmm, not Moss.

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

Yeah.

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

Really?

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

So how far did the whole thing go?

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

She looked terrified.

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

And Moss was just spending time with her because she happened to be alive.

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

You know, you talked about how you felt fated.

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

For him in some way and drawn to him in some way.

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

Have you thought about what is the line that divides that kind of dreamy, healthy feeling, I think, from a scary, stocky feeling?

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

Alexa, how much of your feeling about Moss is connected to your feeling about your grandfather, who you didn't really know?

This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life

Today, before our interview, you faxed over to our offices here at WBEZ.