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By Freya Sanders
09.21.24 — Culture and Ideas
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Oh my God! Caroline! Hi! What are you doing here?

Sorry. . .  Who are you?

It’s never not awkward. You see someone who went to your high school in, say, a coffee shop in Canada, and bound over to say hello, only to find they don’t recognize you.

We’ve all been there. But Jana Kozlowski ends up there more often than most. That’s because she’s what’s known a…

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Freya Sanders
Freya Sanders is a senior editor at The Free Press. She runs our culture section, working with a lot of your favorite columnists, including Suzy Weiss, Larissa Phillips, Caitlin Flanagan, Kat Rosenfield, and River Page. She's the editor of both The Weekend Press and our weekly profile column Two Drinks, as well as our beloved advice column, Tough Love with Abigail Shrier. She also edits personal stories—from 'What I Went Through to Meet My Daughter' to 'My Mom Was Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Then She Got Better'—and investigations, from 'A Wife's Revenge From Beyond the Grave' to 'When Freebirth Ends In Death'.
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