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There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.

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Sarah Stillman

The tremendous challenge of narrative journalism about subjects that are underreported is, how do you make people care about something they think they already know about, or think they don't need to know about?

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There’s no such thing as being totally ‘found’…the fun, I think, is in the searching.

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There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.

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What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too. "

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I tend to only be able to obsess about one thing at once, and become fully engaged in and only interested in that thing. But in the longer term, a lot of my stories also give birth to other stories.

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It's been nice, actually, to keep in touch with a lot of the people and families that I've written about. Like with the kids I was just writing about from Guatemala, who survived being kidnapped and fleeing violence, it was nice to just sit down in their living room and play bingo with them, go to dinner with the family. And sometimes not thinking about it in such a mechanistic "I am now coming to report and get what I need" way, but just spending time, helps you see a more natural version of who they are too.

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