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hispanic heritage month before we get into that

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so i was really jazzed when i saw that

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it was time for me to record another episode of all

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the backless and that my episode lands on

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friday september sixteenth because similar

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reasons the fifteenth and sixteenth happened

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to be the independent stamps or latimer countries

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i as you probably know by now and mexican

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americans and it is mexican independence

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day on today the sixteenth some a did indeed

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consider opening this podcast with a good old

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mexican great though but figured i would have

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some more respect for your eardrums than that

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the success and second reason the forces

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because it is hispanic heritage month as of

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the safeties and yours is really quickly

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one acknowledge that not everybody likes the term hispanic

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heritage month or some thought that it should be may

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be changed to let the next or let the masses

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heritage month and there's lots of complex

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that things to explore their as the spot cast

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a spell out the place to do those what i do know

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is that i love to celebrate to

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the and month and you're around the

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world

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of hispanic or latino lucky next

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authors and so that's what we're gonna do today

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first up is a collection that

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i have read before and that i was recently

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compelled to pick up to the saw the paperback on the table

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at my local in these and that is her body

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other part

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these by government money out much shuttle

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and this book is

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just so good oh

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my gosh it's trigger warnings for the

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spot i do definitely remember there being

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mentions of partner abuse

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and of sexual assault it's been

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awhile since i read the collection all the way through

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it it's entirety those i don't remember all of

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the trigger warnings and how graphic they get so

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definitely approach the book with caution that is an

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issue for your government or machado

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i'm actually gonna read this one part from the publisher copy

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because it is just perfectly

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encapsulates what she does this collection

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and that is that sheath blithely demolishes

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the arbitrary borders between psychological

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realism and science fiction comedy

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and horror fantasy and fabulous

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them and if if to describe it in my

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own words it's like she takes all

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of these saundra's and feelings

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and vibes and emotions and

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just melts them down and apart

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and and like subs her hand into that

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mixture and then with sit out and fillings

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the drippings from her fingertips under the wall

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and like that's her art and it's just

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absolutely reenacted that this is that you can

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see and i don't know them better for even curls

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all the way over a ,

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sister is she makes me tongue tied and

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i love this particular collection so

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so much i'm say but a few of my favorite stories

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there's this one that i believe is cold inventory

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know that i think but it's were see a woman

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interview edna interviews but inventories

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again i always miss upwards at least once and my

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podcast courses as a inventories

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her sexual encounters with lots of different

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people people this this plague

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basically is going through and demolishing humanity

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slowly but very very shortly

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and through these interactions that are sometimes

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just a sparse is like sparse few sentences sometimes

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a little longer we just learned

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so much about

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the connection end

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like arnie or need to connect with other

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people about loneliness about

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identity like it's just the structure

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of the story is really what got me but how

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you how much

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learn through the course of what very much at first

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issue kind of like a laundry list of the people that someone

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has luck with that are ultimately so

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revel a tory at the end would you get

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to look where you know this is heading it is also

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super trigger he has since you know talking

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about a plague and quarantining and having to

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check like physically check the people you're interacting

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with the mixer they're not about to give you a

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disease that will kill you and for you

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know living in the spratly unfortunate

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intersection of snow covered monkey

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pox possibly totally of like of quits

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to your view might have some feelings rearing the story

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but it is such a wonderful story

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even in spite of all that that again this

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is like that human connection thing

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there's a novella lengths or a cold especially heinous

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that many of you may already know you know where

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i'm headed vince's in which much other

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reimagine you know every episode basically

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a lot order s v u but like takes

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it to a whole different place

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that only korea much i was brain can

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and that's how i'm going to say the

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, that really slaps me in the face

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though so much that i like very melodramatic

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we had to put the book down out a coffee shop

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six think about it and send texts friends

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and out at like the whole nine is

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called the husband stitch the first story

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in the collection it is sort of and be

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imagining of the the

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stories us urban legend of the

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girl with the green ribbon i think that's

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what it's called it's not it's very close to that

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and it's about this woman who meets

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i think set up high school party her

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like high school sweetheart who does eventually

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go on to marry quite quickly and they send the russell

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lives together it is one of those

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the is one with look like hot sun the moment they

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meant they get down to the get down

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you know physically and then the rest of their marriages

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like this of your both very voraciously

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into each other physically it

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is a very consensual and like deeply satisfying

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you know sexual relationship that they both

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have with each other lots of sexy times

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in the story but it's told

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interspersed swiss like

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oh have you heard the one about where you hear like

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sorry and maybe even the urban legend about

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a woman usually a mother or wife

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and so you're getting you're seen her marriage

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as it progresses and what is ostensibly

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a very good marriage it's state you know

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notably of that relationship

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the equals they both are again have a

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really great sacrifice but they also a

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he's a good father and a good partner in

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so many ways but the one thing that

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is nice you know kink

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in the armor that

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she has this green ribbon around her neck and some

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the day this match like the one thing i asked

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you look i will give myself body and soul to

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you and all the ways but do not ask me mother

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and and do not touch the urban and so of course

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this husband who she loves deeply and

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who in so many ways is in a with the

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perfect partner does from time

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to time still trying to unravel

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the ribbon to touch through him and ask her about the ribbon

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this story again just smacked me so hard

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in the face i had to sit and read

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course about in line with see other people

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were picking at the things that i was because it says

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so much about what we as women

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like get to keep for ourselves the about

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boundary setting and how we are are not

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allowed to put those up about what

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safe spaces really look like

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and spaces that we think are safe are

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often not how even you know the good ones

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can often really really hurt us

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and make those spaces unsafe and

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it's just so fantastic that again

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that again so dramatically as to be put

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this down and like staring into the skyway ponder

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the meaning of like assist that's the kind

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of writing that government government yeah metabo

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is capable of so pick up that story

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clarkson so good again that's her body and other

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parties by government machado

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read along is the vicious deep by

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sort i the course of our which is

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a story that i'm absolutely including because i just

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saw it has he lives are the trailer

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for the new live action remake of the little mermaid soaring

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the are ridiculously talented

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how the bally's if you have any feelings

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besides good ones about her casting and that

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just kindly take a seats as

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you are on board and would like to have even

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more mermaid fun let me tell you about this

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merman stories how much fun

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as fantasy i'm i met through overqualified

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book riot live or a p as the

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event that once was hum in new york city

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after hearing her speak on a panel and then i found

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out the she writes urban fantasy about brouhaha

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since i was like yup i'm in mind let's go

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get her going to have resigned my books and that of

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course she was lovely but she was all sold out

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of all the brooklyn brew has book specific

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what else can i buy to support uses a good this is

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a series of like really kicked off my career

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i believe them in general may or may be specifically

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and way but it's this collection

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the first of which is the vicious deep it's

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about eighteen a boy named person

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who lives in coney island he is a lifeguard

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he's like a very i'm sexy and i know

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it party

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character and he again

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is left guard he is life guarding one

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they on that's that the upper feather

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ticks sunny skies the caesar com everything

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looks great when in an inset very unpredictably

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the sensing just changes and the

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tides turned the seas become sharpie

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the sky turns like an ugly color and than

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he sees that someone is in need of assistance someone

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appears to be drowning so he goes out

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to like know do the left or thing and then boom

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wakes up the a waiter in a hospital

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this very little to no recollection

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of how he got their look what happened all

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he knows the says he's got this really intense

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like it seemed rash on his legs and

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ethical neck and shoulders like oh my gosh

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what's going on well my good sir

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my brother in christ what's happening is they are turning into

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a mermaid a murmansk assistance and

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of course this is shocking them in the us eventually

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tell his parents and hats when his mom is

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like ah pedals and will really see

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they i forgot to tell you that and either way

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yes you are indeed have mermaid the finds

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out that his father's he ran but that his mother

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is a mirpur since he left the seas

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behinds like you know com be with her her

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husband her partner and also

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by the way in addition to the fact you to stand out your

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like a murderous you are also

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the grandson of like the king of the see

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seeking and also there's this challenge

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that's been issued and you have to go party

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and when it because you're like it's going to inherit

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this title of c o sea king and like

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hijacked

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ensue it is just isn't right

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it's so much fun there's a romantic subplot

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is very

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the see adventurer and

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that gets low but cliffhanger you've got you

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know to more books to make it through com

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he soon is so is so

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fun it's so much fun and it's a series

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of don't actually see talked about very

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much anymore as thrive a quarter was career has

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progressed know which of course i love for her and

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i love the brooklyn brew has series i love

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the inheritance of looking at a vienna and

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the incendiary books but i don't see as many people

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talking about vetoed the series was really

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was really really huge for her album point so

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he want to have some fun with some more people are

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definitely check out the vicious steep which is the first

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in the series by throwback couldn't that's

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good at least yes i'm sitting in a third i have a few minutes

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for him do this this this is an ever loving

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the author whose work i super love and

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that is i have early on in this book specifically

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is a spy in the struggle i

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wanted him to this day because i have any on actually has

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a middle grade debut outside believe

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now that's called undercover lucky

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now and it is again the middle

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great book it's about the middle grade or

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grade latina team spice not a middle kids

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by surely have little kids five goes

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undercover as a white

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girl to stop this white supremacists

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terrorist plot and much i've heard from

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many people that the audio book is great so is can't

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wait to get into that but aspirins struggle

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is aspirins spy thriller about feminism

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and climate change corporate

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justice since the main character is yolanda vance

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she has been hustling all her life

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to try to get the hell out of of she

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makes it to through prep school, she makes it it through harvard

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and now she's working at this movie very fund

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prestigious left, new york law then

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money that law firm catherine it

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turns out the her corrupt bosses are you know

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corrupt cities as to basically

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give them up to save her career and and kind

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of gets volland told

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to work for the f b i quickly learned

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that they want to send her undercover a job

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the she is absolutely not trained

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are ready for but the f b i once the

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basically have her infiltrate this teen the

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the screw back and her college towns that

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they have labeled as an extremist group

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you'll on that once more than anything really just really put

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this case the badger she wants to get to the bottom of things

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get that w go back to corporate law

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you know ominous fed off the group

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claims that this biotech

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corporation that's being funded by

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the pentagon is doing

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major damage exploiting the neighborhood

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and then dislike from as entanglement happens

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and then a stasis just happens angela

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necessary i have a lot of questions

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about you know what's really we'll

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that's what what should she do what is

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the truth who is lying who is

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telling the truth from , choices

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really come down to like to shoot betray her community

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you know her people the people that made her or does

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she make enemies that of one of the most powerful

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powerful powerful a

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organizations you know in the world

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than the f b i it's just

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so fun it's so it's it's i

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loved i've said that so many times and

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will continue to say that i grew up reading

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so much mystery i loved cozies i love

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spy thrillers i love [unk] the thing would espionage

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and i see but took a real long time

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the get to see myself and some of these books in it's

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it's just so nice to see so many of the genre

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is a book that i thought i was never going to see myself

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and now written by of these fantastic lapping

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that writers and so there's three of them

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for you today that i hope you will

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explore and celebrate not just

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day in this month but you know he

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