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Episode 178: Anna Akana

Mental Illness Happy Hour

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What About Yourself? Yeah. Where's Mine?

My sister committed to suicide when she was 17. She had a lot of problems in school with other people socially and academically. So I decided to pursue stand-up because it made me laugh so much for the first time in like two years. And stand up was great, but it was such an unhappy community and so full of alcohol and just bitter resentment.

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