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Leah Sottile is a correspondent for High Country News. She is also a freelance journalist, the author of When the Moon Turns to Blood and the host of the podcasts Bundyville, Two Minutes Past Nine, Burn Wild and Hush. Subscribe to her newsletter The Truth Does Not Change According to Our Ability to Stomach It.
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