High fit

Storage is about what you hold onto and what you bury. Bridget Marquardt had filed the mansion years away as mostly positive, holding onto only the manageable pieces. The podcast and book-writing process started pulling things back out of storage that she had sealed off — episodes she had completely forgotten, editing choices she had blocked out, and feelings she thought she'd resolved. The discovery of the fake smile in the photo book is exactly the moment when something buried surfaced.