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In this week\\u2019s episode of the podcast Sasha and Venetia meet the incredibly talented writer, radio presenter and podcaster Emily Dean who speaks about \\u201cstarting again\\u201d after a series of painful losses, all accounted beautifully in her new memoir Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog. The books jarring title is completely indicative to the tone of the conversation, as Emily refuses to speak gently about the painful realities of grief. Now, she is the only survivor of her immediate family and in her interview with Sasha and Venetia, she speaks in great detail of how this strange reality came to be. The Dean\\u2019s are a genuinely extraordinary family.

Her Dad was a famous TV personality and her mother an actress. Her relationship with both of them throughout the years was turbulent at times. \\u201cIt was a peripatetic, slightly unstable childhood. Lot\\u2019s of bohemian artists, who were great fun to be around, but if you wan\\u2019t fish fingers on the table at 5pm, they\\u2019re not your people.\\u201d In contrast to this, Emily\\u2019s relationship with her sister Rachael meant more than anything in the world to her \\u201cI called my sister my lighthouse, she was home.\\u201d

Emily\\u2019s whole world turned completely on its head in December 2011. Rachael suddenly became very ill, and passed away less than a month later from an aggressive form of cancer. In 2014, her mother was diagnosed with MND, passing away a year later, shortly followed by the death of her father a few months later. Within three short years she was completely on her own. \\u201cThere\\u2019s something about the family you have grown up, in whatever form that takes, that defines you. It is who you are. \\u201c I had moments where I would go to ring my sister, with something funny, or if I had passed somewhere. And then you\\u2019d get this sinking feeling of I\\u2019ve got no one to tell, no one understands this\\u201d

Emily is a fascinating character, and an incredibly smart and intelligent woman who\\u2019s absolute love for her sister is still incredibly evident eight years on from her loss. Her conversation sparked many tears, huge moments of laughter, and that was within the first 10 minutes alone.

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