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Episode 519: Peggy Orenstein

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The Understudy Breaks Her Leg

Katie Couric wanted to be a writer, but she never took a writing class in college. She worked as an assistant at Esquire typing manuscripts onto a 40 character line on an IBM Selectric. "I ended up marrying a Japanese American guy and spending a lot of time in Japan"

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