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Ashley C. Ford is a writer and podcast host. Her memoir, Somebody's Daughter, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books.\n\n\u201cFor the first time I felt like I had so many more choices in my life than I originally thought I had. That was my first realization that I did not just have to react to the world, that I could be intentional in the world, and just curious about what came back to me.\u201d\n\nThanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\n\n\n\n@iSmashFizzle\n\n\nashleycford.net\n\n\nFortune Favors the Bold\n\n\n[5:00] "Roger Loves Chaz" (Roger Ebert \u2022 Sep 2012)\n\n\n[11:34] The Giver (Lois Lowry \u2022 Houghton Mifflin \u2022 1993)\n\n\n[17:47] Ford's commencement speech at Ball State\n\n\n[26:09] Ford's archive at Buzzfeed\n\n\n[41:00] "Ashley C. Ford\u2019s Debut Memoir \u2018Somebody\u2019s Daughter\u2019 Finds Home at Flatiron" (Paperback Paris \u2022 2018)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices