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Rebecca Raney
2 min readMay 2, 2021

Hi! I’m Rebecca, and I live near Los Angeles. For most of my life, I’ve been a reporter. I’ve written for some of the top publications in the country, including The Atlantic, Writer’s Digest and The New York Times.

Before I was a reporter, I trained as a violinist. Follow along as I learn to play again and recall the struggles of competing as a young musician who came from a terrible neighborhood.

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Rebecca Raney

Respectable journalist. Terrible waitress. Reckless Violinist. YouTuber/Novelist. Contributor at The New York Times. Follow at https://raney.ck.page/posts.