Tara Stoinski

The younger one, though, last summer was probably her last summer, and she was sad.

She really loves it there.

So it's just comfort zone for her.

It's something she's familiar with.

If the pizza place closes that she goes to, we have two pizza places in town.

Of course, two girls, one likes one pizza place, the other likes the other pizza place.

I'm so comforted to hear that.

I will say my younger daughter, she's a peacemaker.

She very much is my husband's personality.

So she's a peacemaker.

So if the older one really wants something, she's like, fine.

living thing you can touch that's still him in that way in a lot of ways and it's funny one of the things she's super empathetic and she doesn't want to see anyone get hurt doesn't want to see any animals get hurt I lead with my head and so does my older daughter and she very much leads with her heart and my husband led with his heart and it used to frustrate me because like I want to know what's happening in the news I want to know what's happening in the world and he would be like Tara I don't

want to watch it and it would irritate me because i'm like how do you not want to know what's going on but it physically hurt him and you know this big six foot four guy i didn't get that yes but now i see it i can see it in my little one i'm like oh this is how you're wired and this really does pain you to see others in distress she has a different nervous system yeah completely yes and he did i feel like i understand him better in some ways getting to parent her

It was great.

It was during COVID.

I can still remember like sitting, you know, in my living room and we were connected to Silverback Films, which it's a funny name for the film company because of the Silverback Gorillas.

And we got on the phone with them and they were like, what's happening with the gorillas?

What would make a good story?

And I was with a colleague of mine, Veronica Vecelio, who is kind of like the modern day Diane Fossey.

She's lived in Rwanda for 20 years, knows these gorillas in and out.