How Many Words Is This Story?

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Catlen i. has a pretty new story out in the atlantic about family separations while donald trump was president. Catlen, how many words is this story? I think i saw somewhere that it's like 28 thousand, 500 or 29 thousand words. For people listening, tell me what the story is and sort of the journey it took from it coming to you to getting published.

Caitlin Dickerson is a staff writer for The Atlantic covering immigration. Her latest article, on the secret history of U.S. government’s family-separation policy, is ”An American Catastrophe.”

“Interviewing separated families, I’ve found, is just on a whole other scale of pain and trauma. I’ve watched people have really intense PTSD flashbacks in front of me. I never wanted to risk asking a family to open up in that way if I didn’t know that I’d be able to use that material. The worst thing you can do is waste someone’s time in a way that causes them pain.”

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