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The author, Vauhini Vara, discussed her short story titled "Ghosts", which recounted the experience of her sister dying from Ewing sarcoma and the tape recordings her sister made for her. Vara shared that she found the topic difficult to write about and enlisted the help of artificial intelligence for editorial assistance.
There's this one short story that I read last year that I loved it so much that I actually tried to memorize the entire thing.
— Episode: 182. Is It Good or Bad to Keep Secrets?
Episode: 182. Is It Good or Bad to Keep Secrets?
The author, Vauhini Vara, discussed her short story titled "Ghosts", which recounted the experience of her sister dying from Ewing sarcoma and the tape recordings her sister made for her. Vara shared that she found the topic difficult to write about and enlisted the help of artificial intelligence for editorial assistance.
There's this one short story that I read last year that I loved it so much that I actually tried to memorize the entire thing.
It was called Ghosts, and it was written by this young woman about her sister.
This younger sister is remembering her older sister. And the older sister toward the end of her life wasn't able to speak for very long.
And she made these like tape recordings for her sister. And one of the last things that she said in a tape recording was, the happiest thing right now is I've learned to talk openly.
And the story, it's not fiction.