Roxane Gay
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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protect us in a range of ways.
And sometimes the protection is not like particularly...
I don't want to say healthy in the medical context, but healthy in the psychological context.
But it's what needed to happen for you to survive.
And I think the way that she has understood her marriage as he did a terrible thing, but we also had some lovely moments and we have a lovely family.
And not perfect, but like that these are the people that I belong to.
And he is now part of my past and he's rotting in jail and that's that.
And I think that it's her psyche that gave her this attitude to be able to deal with the magnitude.
Because from the outside looking in, the horrors are so compounding.
And I guess in many ways it's like, thank God she doesn't have to remember any of it.
But I could see that also haunting someone.
Mm-hmm.
I love that she was able to tell her story in her own words because so many of us, even here in this conversation, I projected my opinions on her marriage and her husband, which is my right.
But what matters more is her opinion.
It is her life.
Right.
no one should try and take that away from her.
That's her life.
And no, I don't think anyone wants to look back at their entire life and say, oh, it was a whole lie.
Because to her, it wasn't.
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