Sound Effect

An obsession with perfection nearly killed her. Then she started a family.


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This story originally aired on October 27, 2018. When Caroline Garry first noticed she had a problem with perfection, she was in her bedroom closet scrubbing down a pair of white leather Nikes. Caroline was in seventh grade, and like a lot of kids she had gotten attached to a new pair of school shoes. But unlike a lot of kids, Caroline would come home from school every single day and clean them. In hiding. Whether they were dirty or not. "I just felt this compulsion. I needed to." After she got
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Sound EffectBy Gabriel Spitzer and Jennifer Wing

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