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The lesson he wanted to leave behind
“Every headline has a human being behind it,” he said.
“And humans are more complicated than a cropped sentence.”
He admitted that this experience changed him.
It made him slower.
More aware.
Less willing to be part of the machine that chews people up for clicks.
“Maybe the real problem isn’t what I tested positive for,” he said.
“Maybe the real problem is that the world loves bad news more than real stories.”