Sometimes I do feel exposed. I have this kind of theory about different channels or levels of relaying … - Leslie Jamison

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It's incredible when I'm out in these towns. I have people telling me they were waiting for hours just to meet me and get my autograph. I feel so guilty. I always feel like I have to give them more than just Kato Kaelin.

Leslie Jamison

Sometimes I do feel exposed. I have this kind of theory about different channels or levels of relaying experience - when I tell someone, one on one, in a personal context, about something that's happened to me - that has a very different valence, a different charge, than when
if I've said it in a public forum.

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