Pulling the Thread

Pulling the Thread

Time Traveling with Oprah

A story for guarding against pessimism

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Elise Loehnen
Oct 30, 2024
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A few weeks ago, I got to watch Oprah interview Johann Hari about The Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs at my friend Jen Walsh’s beautiful new bookstore

Godmothers
. Johann is a friend and I’m actually in this book—you can hear our podcast conversation here—so it’s always fun to catch up with him, but it was r…

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