Spencer Bailey

definitely creates a level of remove and wonderment at the world, where you're sort of like...

My situation's different, but it's not that different.

And you're trying to find ways of connecting.

And I guess that's what I felt in those stories was that she was weaving these lives together in ways that, while they didn't feel relevant totally to my world, I could relate to these characters so deeply.

And the way she used language and words and the sort of, I don't know, there was this sort of melancholy layer to those, especially an interpreter of maladies, melancholy layer to those stories that I found relatable somehow.

Yeah.

You and your brother, your twin brother, convinced your dad to let you go to boarding school.

You went to separate boarding schools.

You went to Pomfret.

Yeah, we had to get rid of the hyphens.

Right.

There, when you went to boarding school, you told very few people about the crash.

You wanted to keep it very private.

Right.

And then during your senior year, you gave a speech publicly telling the story for the very first time.

You said that the room went completely silent.

What changed internally for you after that moment?

If the room went silent, I guess my internal self went loud.

Yeah.

Or full color or something.