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Lindhome ended up writing the rest of her fertility story into a one-woman musical, “Dead Inside,” which premiered at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has currently been running on a semi-monthly basis at the Elysian Theater in L.A.

Lucy Dacus sits at a picnic table in Elysian Park blinking against the sun on a windy afternoon in early March.

“I find it cynical,” Lund, 33, tells me as we sit on a picnic table in Elysian Park across from a field with teenage boys at baseball practice.

Eight attendees and several Times staffers gathered at the Elysian Park West Loop trailhead on a crisp but glorious morning.

It’s always a treat to meet new people on the trail, this time among Elysian’s fragrant cedar, eucalyptus and pine trees.