My Sister Made Me Read It

THE SUMMER OF BROKEN RULES Book Review, Edibles, and Shrek Porn

• Abby Preteroti/ Amy Preteroti • Episode 3

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It’s Abby’s Week!


On this episode of the My Sister Made Me Read It podcast, it’s Abby’s week to choose what book we read, and she’s decided on the Young Adult contemporary romance THE SUMMER OF BROKEN RULES by K.L. Walther. (29:15)

But before they dive in, Amy spills the details on going to Matt Rife’s special. Abby reflects on getting high and wandering in Costco with her husband. Lastly, Amy gives a quick synopsis on the Shrek porn she gifted her friend. 

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squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Good morning.

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I went to the grocery store this morning'cause I'm making like Christmas crack white trash and

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Hmm.

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rice crispy treats, and I'm gonna like hand it out

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah,

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Jose's family and stuff. And so we're gonna do that tonight.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

that's fun.

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And so I, woke up early, went to the store, and then my hair was so dirty, so I was like, let me get in the shower and wash my hair. And then now I'm here. That takes like an hour and a half every time.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

this sounds like a productive morning.

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah,

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All right. Well,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I haven't done much of anything this morning. is my first day, well, actually I guess it, technically it was my second day. I took eight days of my PTO this

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Yeah. Well that's nice.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I'm already bored. already so bored. I went to bed so early, I'm like used to going to bed at like 3:00 AM and I was like in bed at eight 30 last night.'cause I was like, what do I do?

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Yeah, well you should try to keep like your schedule up so it's not harder to go back to work.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Ugh. I don't know. But look, I wanted to show you. I got this, my coworker got me this cute mug.

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Oh, that's so cute. Do you love it?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

have to post a picture on, on our

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Yeah. On the Instagram

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

But it's like a little mug that, was custom made and it has me and my two dogs on it, my two babies.

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it's sweet. What's in the background behind the, behind you and the dogs like trees.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

a mountain like landscape

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It's cute. I like it.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

so cute. And it like looks so much like me. Like it has like my red

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It does. And it looks like your dogs

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Mm-Hmm.

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Sunny's a little bit smaller.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah. Sonny's a little smaller on here. Drex looks like skinny king on this photo, which he's not. He's a fat

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It's his goals.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

So this is like,

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It was Photoshopped

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

for 2024. Getting Drex to look like the mug. He's got. Go on a little diet

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All right, well, let's start the show before I get into it.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

to you. I have some updates.

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Okay. Well, uh, welcome back everyone to my sister Mamie re it. Uh, thanks for tuning into this chaotic podcast. As always. Today we're diving into, uh, the Summer of Broken Rules by KL Walter.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Mm-Hmm?

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Um, yeah, this was my week. I chose this book, so we'll get into that in a little bit. But yeah. How was your week? How was Matt Rife?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh, oh my god. dude. Matt Riffe was really bad. I, I went in,

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really

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

it was really bad. It was really bad. And I've been like, all week I've been like trying to convince myself

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I bet. Like a, I bet, like a part of you is wanting him to be good.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

wanted it to be good. I wanted, and not even that, like I wanted a redemption story.'cause like I didn't, but like I, I wanted it to be good. I had a good time, but it just was bad. it

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How was it? Bad?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

So like we, and we had a great day. We had

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

We went out to dinner, we went shopping. Um, and then by the time we got to Matt Rife, we were just like on a high, we were so like, happy just from being with each other all day.

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Mm-Hmm?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

it was pouring rain,

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

rain all day long. And, um, we didn't have an umbrella or anything. And when we got to the auditorium, we like had to park like so far away. So

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

outta the car, we're run sprinting to the auditorium. By the time we get in, we're literally soaked to the bone and I'm wearing like this long leather trench coat and like a tiny mini dress underneath. So I'm just like the, the leather and it's obvi. It was like obviously fake leather, so it was like, I literally felt like I had a condom on my body, like it was sticking to me. I couldn't get this thing off.

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You are like getting claustrophobic in the public

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

was

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restroom.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

And I already had anxiety for like other reasons being there, which you kind of know about. So

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

was anxious to begin with and whatever. So we get in our seats, I'm not kidding you. Like the chairs were this big, so

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Oh God.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

we're just like this, like literally, literally sardines.

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Oh God.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

We get in, were like a tadd bit late, so someone was already on, but it basically was like, there was three comedians before he even came on

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Three. That's a lot.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I know. I know

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I've been to one where there was two, and I was like, okay, let's get to the person.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

well, I had never been to a comedy show before, so I didn't even know they had openers. I guess that's just me being like, um,

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

you know, like, I

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

know, but I was like, oh, okay, cool. So we had like, the three openers, and by the time Matt Rife came on, like it was exciting to like see some, you know, it's like exciting to see like, I guess like, I don't know, it just, it was fun. But he, the whole first like 30 minutes of his set and what, how long is a fucking set? Like, it was probably like a 60.

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An hour.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah,

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Yeah. 45 to 60. Yeah, I

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

the first like 25 minutes of his set was just him, like talking about cancellation, like his

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Mm. So he addressed it.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

for sure. He came in hot addressing it. Like the room, like I kept like looking at Bailey and Megan and we were like, Ugh, I'm uncomfortable. Like the room like felt very like, I don't know. I mean we are in the south, if you like, are catching my drift. So it like felt like very

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Yeah,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

you know,

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yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I got that. But like, I feel like he shouldn't have addressed it. Like I feel like it's

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

He 100% addressed it. He

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I've heard,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

jokes.

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like I've heard the saying before, especially when like you're in the public eye. Like people can have opinions, people can do things, but the moment you start addressing and start saying it is like when publications or like people or things like that can like take what you're saying and be like, make this a news story.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

on his Instagram.

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No, I didn't. I don't even follow him.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh my God. So did you watch this special?

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No

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh my

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I don't wanna support this dude.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I know. I don't either. I. However, I did buy a ticket, but I watched the Netflix special the night it came out because it was one of those nights I was off,

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Yeah, we talked about that. Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

And it was bad. So

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Yeah,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

um, but he made like a joke, like his first, like the joke he got canceled for was like a domestic violence joke.

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yeah. That was the first joke he made too. Like,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Like

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good choice, dude. Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah. So he addressed that at the show, but what I'm talking about about Instagram, so he, like, it was like the first few days of his special being released on Netflix, he had addressed on Instagram. Like he posted an Instagram story

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

was like, um, my public apology or whatever, like it looked like he was

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

apology and he posted a link to his public apology or whatever.

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

And you wanna know what the link brought you to?

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What

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

A website for special ed helmets.

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Oh,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah,

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stop.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I swear. And he

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That's so fucked up.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

he left

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I was,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

like a full 24 hours.

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I was just looking on his profile. It's not there anymore.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

No, I mean it was a

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That's

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

a

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fucked.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

So he addressed, he addressed it immediately. So like at the show, like he addressed it, whatever. He had a full different set than he did on the special, which was nice because I didn't wanna hear those same jokes again. It

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Mm-Hmm?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

like, it was not like really raunchy. He didn't really say anything raunchy. Like he had like a lot of, he had some like, it just wasn't funny,

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I don't remember like laughing, like it was more so like, I feel really awkward'cause like

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Mm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

around us was like laughing and it felt like the room, it felt like the room Was supporting, like the jokes, he was canceled for like, and I know like Matt Rife has said, and he said at the show like, he obviously doesn't support domestic violence. Like everything's a joke. like joking around

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

and it's like, I get it, I get comedy, I get it.

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

felt like the audience was like It just is weird.

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I know. I mean, I think, I think comedy, you like ride that line of like, it's good and it's bad in the sense of like uncomfortable and not uncomfortable. And I think a good comedian kind of creates this stage and this safe space to be like, we can acknowledge that this is fucked up and we can also kind of giggle about it. And I think that's where he's struggling is to create that safe space or that space where it's like, like, I don't know, like Jose and I, we love comedians and we watch a lot of stuff and so we will watch comedians. Like we have Jeff, art, art I think is how you say it, is our, one of our favorite comedians. And he's not making those kind of jokes, but like he makes jokes that are like Against people and like we've been to his stuff and like we're all just dying laughing, like, yeah, that's fucking true. Like, we do do like, like women jokes or men joke. Like, so I think it's just, I, I think that's where he's struggling, but like the shit he's doing outside of his comedy specials is not helping him.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

is.

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It's, it's, yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

That's what it is. It's like, and that's what like I was thinking too,'cause I mean like let's all be fucking real. fucked up stuff is funny. I'll be the first

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

say it, you know, my personality, I think fucked up

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I think we all have dark humor

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah,

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family.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

so like I think it's funny but the jokes aren't funny. Like they,

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

know, some of the jokes he's making just aren't funny and then things that are coming about about his like lifestyle and his day-to-Day life outside of his career, it's like

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I think the issue is coming. There's like a lot of shit about like the, about his personal life and stuff that have come out and I'm just like, oh God.

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Yeah, I saw like the whole like Brook Schofield, I think is how you say your last name. I saw that stuff come out and that's just like grimy shit. And it, yeah, it's just,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

yucky.

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you don't really wanna be associated with that kind of stuff, you know? You don't wanna go out and be like, he's my favorite.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Matt. Rife I just, Rife just

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

a show with my girlfriends and it was a fun time, but it

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Well

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

It was

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you live and you learn.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I wrote down things like throughout the week that I wanted to talk to you about and

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Yeah. I've been thinking

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

and it

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Okay.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Like unhinged list of things in my notes. You want me to read it to you?

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Yeah, let's do it.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

this says pod notes. The first thing is Matt Rife, the

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Check.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

The second thing is get in my Swamp

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What the fuck is that?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

The third thing is Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. And

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Love

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

the fourth thing is Dollhouse murder lady.

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I've seen this woman, I've seen this woman where she buys dollhouses and then she recreates family murders. I think this is the coolest thing, but it's the creepiest thing as well.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

No, need to meet this woman,

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I saw it the other day. She like doesn't have a lot, but like there's people that do this. Like I like went down like a rabbit hole

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I mean,

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and these people that do that.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

There's a job for everybody. Don't

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Hey,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

you can't do something.

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I'm just saying though, like

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

murder scenes and they're good. I mean like they're

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they're pretty accurate. Yeah. I.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I wanna buy one. I think it's the coolest thing I've

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No, I think that's, that would make your house haunted.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

but,

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Like if I had died?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

love a haunted house,

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No. If I had died that way, and then I find out in whatever other existential world that, like someone's making a dollhouse based off of my murder, I'd for sure come back and haunt her ass.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Well, I don't think we've ever talked about this, but all of my friends know this about me, and this is sick. But

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What?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

do you ever feel, like you kind of have like an inkling on how you're gonna die? Do you I think I'm gonna be murdered.

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I wouldn't. Oh my God. I hope you're not,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Well,

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um,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I hope I'm not either. But like, I have always just thought I was gonna be murdered. And people tell me like, stop saying that you're gonna speak it into existence. And it's like,

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yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

is what it is. But if I do end up being murdered, I need you to make friends with this lady

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Okay. I, I'll create a dollhouse in your honor.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I need you all to and give it to mom and Amanda as a Christmas gift.

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You think mom's gonna put the dollhouse of your murder in her house? Dad's urn is in the closet.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

If it was on my last wishes, then yeah. I think she might.

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Hell no.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Get one for Megan and Bailey. At least

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Okay.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

they'll love

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All right. No, I do not have an inkling of how I would die, but I do think about that.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I don't know. I do some, I mean, I've met like a few people who are like, yeah, I do kind of have that feeling too. And then every time I talk about it, people are like, well, do you have any birth marks? And I don't

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I have a lot of birth. You know, I have a birthmark behind my ear.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

pro, you're probably gonna get shot in the head.

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No, that's not what's gonna happen to you. That's what happened to you in your previous life.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh, then you

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That's what the birthmarks, yeah, I think I probably was was

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I don't have any birthmarks, so I bet I just died like a peaceful death. And that just sounds boring because if you're gonna die,

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Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

wanna like, like, you know.

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No, I wanna be like 99 years old and like me and Jose sleeping in the bed together and I just go peacefully. And then Jose goes peacefully. That's how I wanna die.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

after another.

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Yeah.'cause you know, Jose can't live without me.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

No,

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gonna, who's gonna make him meals?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

nobody

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He'll fucking starve.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

gonna drive him to the emergency room when he gets a stubbed toe.

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Oh my god. Update on the, on the fucking splinter. I still think there's a piece of splinter in his foot.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Damn. Tell

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got a magnifying glass this morning at Kroger

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

some, you're stupid people get shot and the bullet stays in their body forever. Like it's fine.

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That's what I told him. I was like, it's gonna push it out. But he's still like, I can't walk on it. That will,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

That is so funny.

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but

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

But yeah,

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no.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

so glad you knew what I was talking about with the Dollhouse murder lady.

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Yeah. That's funny. What about this, this Enter my swamp.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh my God. Okay, this is real quick. So one of my best friends, Chloe, she has this like, she's One of the most amazing people I've ever known in my life. She's so funny.

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

She's just the best and she is so silly. And she got this like random like obsession with Shrek. Like

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I was about to say, I automatically thought about Shrek.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

like this random obsession with Shrek this past year

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

like would randomly like she's just so silly. And she says like the most out-of-pocket shit. It's the funniest thing. She's the funniest person I know.

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

like, I'll wake up sometimes to just like random like tiktoks and I'm like, bitch what? or just like things that are like have to do with Shrek. So it's kind of became this like running joke between Chloe and like our group of friends and Chloe's in our book club how we kind of do our book club. There's a lot of us. So we each, once a month we each pick a book that we would like to read and we put it in a cup and one of our friends kind of like picks out the book and that's the one we read for the month.

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Chloe always fucking, she found this book off of Amazon that's called Get In My Swamp and she puts it in the running every month. And it's kind of just a joke. It's literally just like a porn book. It's like a fan fiction. It's like a Shrek fan fiction.

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Is Fiona involved?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

No. So I guess like copyright stuff, they couldn't call Shrek and Fiona, you wanna hear their

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Uh, oh God. What is that?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Beck instead of Shrek. Beck is the ogre and the girl's name is Leona with an L.

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Wow,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

So I um, Chloe for Secret Santa at work this, this month.

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you got her that book.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

And I fucking got her the book and I got her like some Shrek stickers. So like, one of'em, I actually kept one on my Kindle. It's a slut, but it's like in the Shrek font.

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with the Shrek ears on the s.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

And then I got her another one. But, um, and it's like Shrek and she's like all like girly looking and I gave her like the book, but yesterday I gave it to her yesterday. She was dying. But I, um, like read like a few chapters of it and it's

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mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

good

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Oh my God. Gross.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

It

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I will not be partaking in the Shrek porn.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

It's straight up shark porn. But let me just tell you a little synopsis. So I read like the first like five chapters. It's literally this big, I mean it's the smallest book.

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

font is so big, like it's she'll read it in one sitting

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yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

but literally like the, how it starts is like this ogre like obviously lives in his little area, his little swamp, and eats humans as ogre stew Leona. And it's like present day. Like this bitch is on her iPhone and shit. So it's like present day Leona's like walking through the woods. She went to, she went on like a walk the ogre, she like took a wrong turn I guess. And the ogre has like traps set up to humans so he can eat humans.'cause he like likes eating meat. So Leona falls in his trap. He

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Mm-Hmm?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

a human scream, he runs out there see who fell in his trap. And it was a woman. And she's like, pass out like that on the bottom of.

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Okay. Do that again.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

And he's like, I see her breathing, so I know she's alive. So I jump in there with her and he's like, I've never, he goes, oh my God, I don't eat women or children. He's like, why would

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That's where I draw the line.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

drawing the line. So he's like, usually old men fall in my, in my trap. So he is like, this is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life. So he jumps in there, he sweeps her up. He's like, I cradle her like a baby because she's so tiny and he's an ogre.

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Yeah,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

like cradles her, her, um, brings her in the house, right? She wakes up freaking, freaking out. And so he puts her in a freaking cage and he's like, relax, like, I'm not gonna hurt you. He is like, and she's like, what do you mean you're not gonna hurt me? Why am I here? Let me out. And he's like, I can't let you leave because you're gonna run and tell people that I'm here.

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The House made 2.0

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

He's like, I will let you out. Just not yet. Actually, now that you say that, maybe the author did read the housemate because there's kind of, yeah, there's some similarities. Anyways, so he puts her in the cage and leona's like, okay, I've used my pussy before to get out of situations. Let me just do it again. So then she tries to seduce this ogre to get to escape. Okay.

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Who? Yeah. Okay.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

She tries to seduce this, ogre to escape, and he's like, I'm not falling for it,

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Mm-Hmm?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

he does end up falling for it. And

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

she's like, oh my God. Like, she's like There's like this one line that I like, remember she calls it, what does she call it? She calls it like something like operation, like pussy escape or something. It's so stupid, Abby. So she's like using her vi JJ to get out of a situation. So, but then she starts to kind of like it. So then she like, there's this one line where she's like. Leona. She's like talking to herself. She's like, Leona, this is Operation Pussy Escape, not Operation Stockholm Syndrome. And I'm just like, what?

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Oh my God.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

But they ended up like doing

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Fucking fiction is fucking freaking wild man.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

But I got Chloe that book last night.

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That would ruin Shrek for me. So

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh no. It made Shrek so much better. And you know who else is obsessed with Shrek?

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who?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Megan? Me, Megan and Bailey literally watched Shrek two like a few weeks ago. It was

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Jose had never seen Shrek and I showed him last year. We used to love Shrek as a kid.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

is great.

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Yeah, Shrek was great.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

You know, some characters just age with you, you know what I mean? Now we got

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Well,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Shrek porn.

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I'm glad we've been educated on Shrek porn.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I just had to tell you about it. I thought it was so funny. I might choose it for one of our books. I'm just kidding.

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No, I'm not reading that. I'm not reading that.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

nothing, literally nothing to talk about. Like, it's

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I was about to say, what did we discuss?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

There's nothing to talk about. But anyways, was really all I wanted to talk to you about. Do you have anything

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Hmm. Um, yeah, a little bit. Like it's just been, we've just been so busy and I've just been, I have so many projects going on right now where I'm working like long days and I have like a little mental breakdown. I'm also, it's also that time of the month and so it's like everything's just heightened. I have the worst periods, I feel like shit. So Tuesday I had like a little mental breakdown and I texted Jose was like, do you wanna take an edible and go to Costco? And so I took an edible and we went to Costco and it was, we came home with like two things of muffins, a can of chocolate chip cookies,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

that

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like one of those big containers of, um, chocolate covered almonds,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh,

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Like it was the best thing. Like we just walked around Costco, he didn't take one, I took one and we just like walked around Costco, like just eating shit. Buying shit, got pizza after. And then like I was eating the pizza I, with these edibles that we have, it's like so slow to get to like you're high. So I was like buzzed while we're walking around Costco and I'm eating my pizza and like, I don't remember Jose getting up and throwing up or throwing out our trash. I just remember Jose looking at me and being like, okay, let's go. And I was like still sitting at this picnic table and I was like, why are we leaving? And he was like, we gotta go home. And I was like, oh, we're done. And so like, then I got up and then I just like Instantly got the giggles. And you know, like at Costco you have to like hand your receipt to the guy. It's this, it's this nice guy. And I've seen him before, he's like my age. And I handed him the receipt and I could not stop giggling. Like I was like covering my mouth and like, I don't even remember what he said. And then like he handed me back the receipt and I was like running through the parking lot, and Jose's like, what the fuck are you doing And I was like, where's our car?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Where's the car? so funny. I'm so glad to hear that you're like giggle hire because so am I.

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I could not like the whole, so then we like pack up the car and I like hold onto the almonds. I'm in the front seat, just chowing on almonds, right?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

in your face.

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And I'm like giggling. And at one point I'm driving, we're driving home and I'm looking out, it's nighttime at this point. So I'm looking out the window and I'm like looking at all the lights and I. Kid, you know, I bit down on my tongue so hard. I like almost bit through my tongue.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Shut up.

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And so like I'm high and in my mind. I'm like, wow, this hurts. Like I like think that. And I was like, that really hurt. Like I don't remember it hurting this bad when you bite your tongue. And then I was like, should I tell Jose? And I was like, yeah, I should, like when he did it like a couple weeks ago, he told me. So like I'll tell him. So then I tell him I bit my tongue and then I like start like looking at it and I was like, no, I really think I like pierced my tongue and I did like I sliced my tongue open.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

piercing.

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It's like today's now feeling better and like, so then we got home and like I'm still high and then we're watching like suits and I couldn't even like get immersed in a TV show. I'm like sitting there. No, I was sitting there like imagining I was the director and like watching actors act.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh my God, you

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It was like.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

it.

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I know and it's like, you know Meghan Margo and stuff, and I turned to Jose and I was like, I see what they're saying now. She is a bad actress.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I like, I get it. I get it. She's

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Jose was like, yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

That is so funny.

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I was just like, I was just tripping out, sitting on the couch and then like I, it finally went back down. But yeah, it was like one of those,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

what they're

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it was great. I'm like sitting there. Then I traded the almonds for cookies, so I'm sitting eating cookies. I just get such bad munchies. And then the giggles.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I don't, I don't,

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Oh my

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

giggle so bad. And that reminded me on Sunday we went out to dinner, and now that I'm sober, I don't, well, I'm California sober as they say. I don't drink, I'm

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

alcohol. Um, but I get like violently high before I go anywhere because I don't wanna miss, I don't wanna be tempted to drink, um,

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

when I'm out. So we're like, but I get so giggly. It's not even like, it's, it's hard to function. So we went out

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

and the hostess like, said something to um, Megan or somebody, like when we walked in, like, how many people? I don't know why, you know, I just say like the stupidest shit. And I don't know

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

my answer to her I thought was so funny and I could not stop laughing. was like, how? Or she goes, dinner or drinks tonight? And I was like, two drinks, one dinner. I don't drink.

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Mm-Hmm?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I'm like, does that get us the table faster if it's like two drinks, one dinner and then like, I

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I thought that was funny.'cause obviously that's not funny. That's literally not funny.

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Megan and Baylor are like, Amy, like relax. So we're like sitting. So she hates us. Abby, you know how like when we laugh it's like silent, like we

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

tears. I could not like sobbing out of laughter. And the girls were like, can you please get it together? And I could not stop fucking laughing. And then

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Yeah,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

was like, so we went to this restaurant, it was a Mexican restaurant, but for um, Christmas they kind of set up like Hawaiian Christmas theme. It very strange. But

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yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

had a, a LightUp crab

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Or maybe a Mexican Christmas theme. Why'd you go to Hawaiian? Was there like

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I

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luaus

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

is a tropical area. Okay.

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You're like, they had like pinatas and like flowers there, like

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

these

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was

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Coronas

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so cute. Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

weird. No Okay, let me live. So they had a LightUp crab. Abby, this crab was like looking into my soul and

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

stop laughing. I thought it was the funniest thing. I was about to steal the crab and run out that house. I thought it was so funny. I wanted to take it home with me.

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

waitress comes up and she's like, can I get you guys anything to drink? And I had just like gathered myself, but I'm covered in tears. I look like, I like literally like someone just shot

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

and Megan's like I'm so she just can't stop laughing. And she goes, oh my God, thank God. That was so, that was about to be so awkward. I thought you were, I thought I interrupted like a really bad conversation. I'm like, I'm so sorry. I'm just laughing so hard. And she was like, oh no. I'm so glad you're laughing. I thought you were bawling your eyes out. I'm like, yeah, but that's funny.

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No. Well, I'm glad we both get that way. Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

that. For us, it's a fun time.

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

you

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It was a fun day.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

try it.

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I don't like smoking. We let, I mean, so we did, we started this on Thanksgiving because. Thanksgiving, his family was supposed to come over and then his family ended up getting covid. So we were like lonely for Thanksgiving and I wanted to put the Christmas tree up.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

usually when you turn to substances.

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Well, I wanted to put the Christmas tree up and I was like, do you wanna like take an edible and like put the Christmas tree up and just like have a night? And so he went, we have this shop down the street. So he went and got them. So we had them. And I was like, let's take an Eble and go to Costco.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

don't fuck with

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Let's be an adult. They're fine. Those ones are fine. They taste

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

a,

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horrible.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

talk about this book, but one time I, this was when I was drinking too, so it was a bad situation. I would definitely

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Mm-Hmm?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

smoke and do a bunch of shit. I was wasted and I took an edible and I never eat edibles. I hate them.

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Mm-Hmm?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

and then I forgot I took an edible and I smoked a whole blunt. And I swear to you, I thought I was falling off of the planet. I

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I was about to say.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Don't recommend.

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

But, you know, I like gardening every now and then. So I'm down

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Is that what they call it?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I'm down with the gardening. Okay, let's talk about this, this damn book,

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Okay.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

to say, let me say one thing first. Not really a fan,

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Really. You didn't like this?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

just, not my vibe.

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I mean, that's fair. That's valid.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

like I was reading Abu uh, about 12 year olds. Did you feel that? Did

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It did feel younger.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

to you?

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I, it didn't feel so younger, but it did feel younger.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

It

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It was just like, it was like true young adult.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

It was

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but for them to be 19 and 20, it felt, yeah, it felt like 16.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

It

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I don't, I wouldn't say it felt 19 or 20.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

No, it didn't.

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mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

a cute story. There were absolutely not. One rule was broken

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Yeah. I don't know.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

it's called the Summer of

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I,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

There was no rules broken. Right

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I guess, yeah. I'm trying to think. I guess,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Okay. You wanna get into it or are you trying to think of a rule that was broken? You look like you're

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I mean, I was just thinking, I was just thinking like the alliances, but yeah. I guess there wasn't like a rule. Yeah, it wasn't a great name. Loved the book cover though.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

So cute. And it was

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Very cute.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

It was a cute, wholesome story. nice to have, like to break off from, especially things that I read. It's nice to break off and have something like nice and wholesome. Maybe

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

why I like read, like Adeline and shit. So it felt very young to me.

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I mean it, I read this kind of stuff and it felt young to me, but like I prefer

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I,

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new adult over young adult, which new adult is like 20 to 25 young adults, like 15 to 20 or 18. And so like

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

28

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yeah,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

and I feel like a young adult. So

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yeah. Same.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

15 year olds as young adults.

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Yeah. 15. Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

That's shocking news to me.

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Yeah,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

All right.

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I liked it. I thought it was cute. So it's about basically, Meredith loses her sister. We find out later in an accident. but her and her dad and her mom are going to like this family farm, a Martha's Vineyard to have this like family reunion type thing. But also her cousin is getting married and so they're having, they're staying for a week and at the end of the week her cousin's gonna be getting married. So they go to the Martha's Vineyard and they're meeting all these new people because it's not just family this time, it's also like groomsmen and bridesmaids. Yeah,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

they're all there for a whole week together doing

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And so

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

like things leading up to the wedding,

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exactly like what you do for weddings. Yeah. And so then it's this game of assassins introduced that this family does, um, this game of assassin. Every time

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

much fun.

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I was thinking, while reading, I was like, when we like have kids and we have like a bigger family, we should so do this'cause it sounds so much fun.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

yeah. Like what a cute little tradition. Like they, they do every summer, have this game that like the entire family plays. I just thought it was so cute.

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Yeah. And it like, it's like has three rules. Well, this, this year it had three rules and the first rule was it had to be outside,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Mm-Hmm.

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feet away from a building, 24 hours. And then the last rule was it can't interfere with any wedding stuff,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

things. Yeah.

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any wedding stuff. So, um, yeah. Super cute.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

you wanna

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Um,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

the rule? Like, well, you'd literally just explain the rules of a sentence.

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well,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

but

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basically like how the game is Yeah. How the game goes is the grandparents, which, no, the grandparents are known as Wink and Honey.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

winking

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the grandfather. And honey as the grandmother, I would've preferred like, being known as like Gram Grandpa, wink, or like Grandpa Honey,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Okay.

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because there's so many characters. There is a lot of characters in this book that I think are rapidly like interchanging and you're hearing a lot about'em. And so like. When Wink and Honey, and especially with like the main male character being Witt, I would read Wink and like, and like we have to take a second to reorganize my mind.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Witt has two names. There

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Witt Witchery.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Witt

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was just like a lot and the like,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

and we

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I

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I had like, Meredith, the main female character, has a, a friend group that's not

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

She has a friend. Well, are they

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they're like her extended family.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

extended cousins? Maybe first, second cousins? I don't know.

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Yeah, something like that.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

and I would get them confused because then there's like a young kid.'cause there was like that one point where like the kid told her who her assassin was and

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That was her,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

years old.

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that was her, her dad's sister's child

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah, there's a

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who's married to the other woman. Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

There was a lot. Yeah.

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Well, and that's why like in the beginning of the book and I wrote down on my notes page, like she has the family tree, but the family tree only doesn't involve like the the friend group, you know,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

know.

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and like wit, it's not on here and stuff. So

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

basically how ESS works is you get a little piece of paper with somebody's name on it,

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yeah, grand grandma and grandpa run the game and so they

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

They're the commissioners.

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getting whose names. But yeah, continue.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Um, so they get a little tiny piece of paper with someone's name on it and you have to like basically take a water gun or some type of water utensil weapon, don't

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

And you have to like quote unquote kill them with the water gun and assassinate them. And then once they're assassinated, so say my, say I have Abby as my, um, person to assassinate,

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Target. Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

assassinate her. And then once I assassinate her, she has to hand over who her target is. So now it kind of goes down the line. Now her target's my target. You kind of inherit whoever u assassin's target is. Um, so it's a cute little, little game think that they play.

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Yeah. I thought it was really cute and like, um, so early on we're introduced. I guess we can just start in the beginning. Meredith's going to this family vacation. She's supposed to be bringing her boyfriend for this wedding. Her boyfriend breaks a boyfriend of four years, breaks up with her, and so she's upset. She goes on the ferry, which reminded me of a, when we went on a ferry.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Well, this was a big

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I don't know if, remind you,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

on ferry. We

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do you remember that?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

ferry did we?

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Yes, we did. I remember this one time, I don't know if you were with us, it might've been for soccer, but mom and I, I know mom and I were together and it was when mom had the Lincoln Navigator, like the mint color one,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah.

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and we were running late and we had like, just made the ferry. We were the last car. And like our car, I'm not kidding you, like I'm not exaggerating, was hanging off the ferry

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

No, I was not there

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and they like put like something around the back of our car so it wouldn't fall in the water.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

seatbelt on

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And like, I was like, mom, I can't, because like, we would usually just sit, sit in the car. Like I know in this book, like they get out and they go to the top deck, but like we would usually just sit in the car and I was like, I can't sit in this car. Like I, it's giving me anxiety and like, so it was reminding me of that. But so she's on the ferry and that's when she, her boyfriend like calls her or something and she's like, you're a shithead. And um.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

yeah. Shitheads a big theme in this book for

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Then like she realizes she's trapped in this car because like ferries, if you've never been on a ferry, they pack that stuff like sardines. And so, um, she ends up having to go out of the sunroof. She gets outta the sunroof. And I don't, I guess I kind of just like imagine like parkour, like hopping out of the sunroof and like kicking Witt in the face as he's like, I guess shimming through the cars.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

yeah, like John Wickham. For sure. For

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

So she kicked him in the face and then like ran off.

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Like runs away. It's like, sorry. And like runs off. And then, um, when she gets to the farm, she realizes that Witt is her cousin Sarah, who's the bride's husband's stepbrother.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah, so

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So he's a groomsman,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

He is a groomsman,

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he's a groomsman. So, um,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

so they develop

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then

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

pretty fast.

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yeah, so like a trope of this book is definitely instant love because this book is.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

very instant.

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This book is set out like Sunday to Sunday, and it's, it's similar to like this part, this part, this part tells you what day it is before it goes into the chapters. So on Sunday, like she shows up with her fam, she meets or she hits Whitt on the ferry. She shows up at the farm, they have this welcome party. She meets Whit at the farm, realizes like he recognizes her. Um, and then the assassin game is introduced. Um, Monday is when they get their targets assigned. Uh, she eliminates her aunt Rachel, who's pregnant, and her aunt Rachel is like, thank God I don't wanna do this stuff. I'm pregnant. Um, and like Monday, the next day is when they start like kind of having this, um, back and forth and they realize like, we don't like nicknames. And like, I think that's when they're doing like, babe. And he's like, no, no, no, don't do babe. Um, and Monday nights the first night she spends the night with him.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah, they like are, it was weird.

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Like you met him 24 hours ago.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I made a lot of notes in this book, like throughout, like on my Kindle about how quickly this is progressing.

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Chapter 11, page 1 63. This is after they had kissed, right? I think this is like when they're outside and, and She said, I lean in and kissed him, kissed powdered sugar off his lips. I like you. I whispered. I really like you. I really like you too. He said back grinning. I I like you quite a lot. And I just made a, a note and was like, Ella, what? Three days? My guy men aren't like this. I'm so

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but he is a young kid, like young

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

why I,

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kid, like aspiring kid.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

you when I was wa reading this. I'm like, how old are these people? Because like, is just funny. I'm like, what? I really like you quite a lot.

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That's on what page one 60. What?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Um, and my Kindle, that's on page 1 63.

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Yeah. I put on 1 73 it says, I laughed and then he says, um, I love climbing trees. Yes. He said the corners of his mouth curling. I just like you love climbing. I just, I just like, you love climbing me. My breath caught just like you love climbing me. You're wicked. I said, and you go wild for it. He said back and I jumped to the ground and I was like, what the heck?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

same exact thing. Okay, so the, the, um, line is just like you love climbing me. And my note is, do they know what this means?

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Yeah.'cause it is like written from like a very immature state of mind, I felt.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

you love climbing me,

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Calm

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

What do you mean?

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Well, so like,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

they already had sex at this point? Because they, it's insinuated that they have sex.

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yeah, they had definitely have no, they definitely have sex in the book, but, um,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

that was so

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yeah, this is after,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

we made that same note.

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this is after I think the party at the varsity room

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Uh huh

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and then they go back to his cabin and I think that's the night they have sex

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

It's so strange and like there's really no theme. Like there's, there's really no theme throughout the book other than, um, there's like one plot twist at the end, which we can kind of talk about,

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

there's really no theme. It's literally just like most of the book is them just playing this game, which is fun. It's just like shenanigans of this game. And then we kind of watch them fall in love with each other for like a few days. But I also made a note on page 1 76, which we'll go to. Um, what are they doing? She like fell asleep on the floaty outside on the lake or something.

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Is this before or after the plot twist?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

oh, before. This is like a few pages after our climbing the tree quote.

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Oh,

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It says I jumped my or wit said. be damned. Let's take a dunk. She said. I jumped up from my so sweat, my sweat stone towel wit immediately submerged himself in the shallows and did a goofy Before taking off for the ponds float, I flipped onto my back and did my best backstroke to follow him, and I just was like, Ew, cringe. LOL was my note. Like she's

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what do you mean now?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

swimming. Just a backstroke,

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I would do a backstroke.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

A backstroke.

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maybe not a backstroke. Probably like a breast stroke.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

is more normal.

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Yeah,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I thought

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probably.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

so strange.

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I guess it, but I kind of feel like it fits her character.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I jumped in and did the butterfly over to him. Like, no one's doing that unless you're Michael fucking

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Well it's, you're trying to show off Wolf.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I thought that was so weird. I'm

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I thought it was. Yeah. So the assassin game happens and he wit ends up getting her dad right.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah,

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And he ends up shooting his dad a out of the outhouse. And I thought it was

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Meredith's dad.

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when he's leaving the outhouse and I thought it was funny. It's on page 180 6 when Whit comes by the house and his dad says it's open. Dad called through a mouthful frosting.'cause he's upset. So he's eating his fun Freddy frosting, which is relatable. And he says Always open.'cause that's also a. Rule at this farm that like, you don't knock, you just walk through doors and it says the door squeaked. But Witt had barely crossed the sitting room's threshold before Dad flipped out. But not to you, he said and pointed outside. Absolutely not

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

bro. They take this game so seriously, don't they?

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I just thought that like absolutely not

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Absolutely not. You're

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I, this was the funniest thing.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

throughout, as I'm reading this book, I was giggling.'cause I'm like, are dead ass about this game. Like this is

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

death. Like at some points I'm like, am I like, are we gonna get to a point where it's like, jk, were actually sniping bitches. Like I thought they were like for real killing each other because they're dead ass serious.

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That's how you know you read dark books.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I was like,

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Funniest,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Like

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yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

like, take it so seriously. And even

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

like these people we're talking about. Our main characters are children, honestly. I mean, they're 16. Well, I guess not. I guess they're young

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Now they're 19 and 20, but still they're young.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

fucking children. Number one. They're young kids.

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

And then like we look at like the uncles, the aunts, like they're pissed about being eliminated. Like they're all like these grown ass men. Like this

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

on the couch eating frosting. He's so upset.

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

a

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Love that.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

him from this game. Like

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Love it.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

so seriously.

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

It's really

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fun, but like it's, I feel like that the game wouldn't be successful if you didn't.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah. you're

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Like, that's what makes it fun.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

is funny, but it's funny to read and you're like, oh my God. They're like dead ass.

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah. So now we're kind of like, contenders are like kind of dwindling because

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yeah, so he eliminates, she eliminates Witt dad. She eliminates Viv, and then she finds out that she has

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

She has Witt as her

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They go to the party, they kiss, they have sex, all of that thing. Then she has a 2:00 AM bed call. This is Wednesday. Um, they go to breakfast and they like tour Edgartown. Um, then she, that's, this is the day she finds out that what's going to Australia for school year to have like an adventure. Um, she goes to the grocery store.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

in a full, basically like a full relationship on day

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Yeah. The next thing is like, they go to the grocery store and then they go, I think it's to dinner that night. And she licks his face.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

bro, sick as fuck.

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I don't even lick Jose's face.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

You know what's weird? Okay, let me, I made another note right here. Let me go to it. Page one 90, bitch, I'm licking your face. It's the same page. Okay. So they're also very like, like wit is like weirdly obs. No, I wouldn't even say obsessed, but he's into Instagram,

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No, I mean I think,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

he's

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think that's normal for that age.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

he posted the picture of the lobster, eating the lobster guacamole, which I thought was strange.

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I thought that was fun. I thought that was funny.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

It is funny, but like, I

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No, he posted the picture of her and then like on the scroll you can do another picture. He imitated the picture'cause he went to the same place.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

in crime or something.

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Yeah, I thought that

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

like,

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was cute.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

is cute, but they've known each other 24 hours and

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

posting her. Okay, that's just my

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Valid

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

that's my own, that's

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No, that's valid.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Um,

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I kind of forgot that they've only known each other for 24 hours.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

they go out to dinner and she licks his face and they take a photo of her licking his face.

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

And um, made a note on the comment when he, when um, smirked and what a beautiful face it is. I snorted,

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I snorted. Come on. He said post it. It's us

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

That's what he said to her, like he wanted her to post it on Instagram. And I just made a note and said, never in the history of men, never in the history of men, has a man wanted. A girl to pose a picture of her licking his face and kind of pressured her a little bit. To be honest, he kind of pressured

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No. Yeah. I don't know if he pressured her. I think he just kinda was like, no, it's fine. Like it's nothing. It's not a big deal. But like it's also

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

she does say, okay, fine. I said excitement shooting through my veins. Let's do it. Let's do it. Like she fucking loved that shit. She ate that up.

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it. I don't care that like they posted the picture. I don't like, I don't care. They're kids at the end of this and they're having a good time on this family reunion.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Sure.

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My thing is like, why are you licking his face?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Honestly, number

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I don't know if that's like my germophobe.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

So unsanitary. And you're in public. It's not like they

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And you're in public.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

in like safe confines of their home.

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Yeah,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

And what was it? It was like lobster.

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it was butter. She was licking off his face.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

sick. That's disgusting.

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Yeah, it is kind of gross.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

That is sick.

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so they do the licking thing. Where was I?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I got another one. The next page.

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Oh no, they don't have sex till after she licks. His face

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Okay. No, see listen.

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turned her on.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

She's licking his face she says something I said, but then grinned before kissing him on the cheek. Hey lovers, someone shouted from somewhere in the restaurant. This is a family

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

you wanna get it on, get out. And I just made a note and said, so odd. Like, this is so

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That is so odd. That is so like no one would say that, but I guess maybe in a small town somebody would.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

maybe.

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This place reminded me a lot of, like the cabin up in Canada that we went to a lot in Kaza. Paua. Like I kept imagining that type of dynamic. And there's a point in the book when she's talking about, or someone says, this place has this kind of magical power that kind of makes you forget about the outside world and makes you forget about all your problems. And

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

has that

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it helps you make you be in the moment. And yeah, the cottage where we used to go to all the time, definitely like, you forget, you know, we would go for like 8, 9, 10 days and like we would forget

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

you

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about time.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

of it. Yeah.

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I

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Um,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

feeling.

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definitely. Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

a great, like nostalgic thing to look back on, like as you're reading this, you're like, Dan, like when you were younger, we would have that. Like, now we can,

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I mean, I would love to, I just took eight days off of my job, but I would love to drive off somewhere and, and you know, forget

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a place that didn't have cell reception. And yeah,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

do that. I have, I'm an adult now with responsibilities in the form of two human

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I mean,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

animals.

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yeah, I think we'll get back to that. I mean, that's a goal of mine to get back to that place, especially when we have kids. But, um, no, so it just reminded me of it. But, um,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

have kids. How dare you,

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yeah, and like human children,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

They both

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um,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

of me. I birthed them.

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yeah, I bet. Um, but even like when in the cottage in Canada, like we would go get like water and stuff and then we'd always go and get like ice cream at that little Hutt. So it, it was just like, we didn't have like a town we would go to, but we had like little places that we would go to often and like the dirt road and the long driveway and like all of those things, it was just super reminiscent of like our childhood a little bit. But, um,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

If only we played assassin.

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I've only, we played a, we played Batman.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I was about to say we p we played a lot of shit. What's that

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We did. We were always busy.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

What that one game that we played, and it was like a, a, a game, a board game that you play throughout the week.

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Was it risk

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Is it risk

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or cranium? I think we played like, yeah, risk is with the

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

countries is risk.

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Yeah, it's risk. Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Love

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Yeah. Or like we did puzzles, all the classic cottage things, puzzles,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

We did a puzzle.

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But even too, like they go tubing in the beginning of the book and I was like, yeah. I was like, we did that. That was fine.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

she mentioned like Yeah, her, how her bathing suit was gonna come off inevitably. And

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

oh my God. Yeah. Our bathing suits would always come off. Remember Jesse peed on us?

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Yeah. I remember that one. I don't know if you were on the boat with us, but Amanda lost her bathing suit bottoms. And it was like me, dad, uncle Phil, like Maddie and Dylan. Like it was like all the male cousins and like uncles and like my dad was like, okay, everybody turn around. like got a towel for Amanda.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh my God, so funny. Me and Jess

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

the two on the float and like one time her pants fell off and she just was like, I'm letting go and just peed all over me. She's

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No, I always liked, I always liked the double tubes tube, but I hated doing single tubes. And as we had gotten older, like they stopped doing the double tube.'cause single tubes, you just freaking like bounce off and like

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

It's,

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and I hated it.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

the

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

the single

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He would whip us around.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Okay, let's continue. Where

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All right, so, um. They have sex Wednesday night, Thursday they have the gumbo and like family dinner thing. That's where she has her conversation with Sarah, which is her cousin.

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cousin.

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And they talk about like her sister Cecilia.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Do

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And, um,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

do you want me to do like a little recap? Recap about how the sister died?

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yeah. Do you want to or do you want me to?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I will go through it real quick.

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Okay.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

her, um, older sister, what's her name?

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Cecilia.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Cecilia. There's two Cecilia's back to back this book and her last book,

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Who was Cecilia in the last book? Oh, was it Cecilia then?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Anyways,

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I'll look it up. I might be wrong.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

uh, yeah, I don't know. Cecilia doesn't sound right to me.

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Hold on.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Anyways, I'll continue talking anyways. Um, The older sister. So she is older, she's two years older than Meredith, so she's 18 at the time of her death. So

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Claire,

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Claire, I was gonna to say

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Claire,

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wrong.

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was wrong.

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Um, so Claire goes on kind of like a vacation to visit her cousin Sarah, who's in, um, new Orleans. She goes to school in

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new Orleans.

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So Claire's there with her cousin Sarah. They're very close. Her and her cousin Sarah. Um, seemingly like best friends. They, uh, Meredith tells us, like Mary Claire was my older sister, but Sarah was Claire's older sister. Um,

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Yeah.

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so they're very close. Claire's there, they're having dinner. Um, Claire and Meredith are also very close sisters, so they're texting. MeRedith wakes up next morning and gets the news that her sister has passed away in an accident. So what happens is, um, Sarah is of age, Claire is not. Sarah gets, uh, she has too much to drink. Not an inappropriate amount, but enough to not make her feel comfortable driving. Claire then drives of Sarah they even pull out of the parking lot, which I thought was so strange.

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Yeah, they're like in the car. So Claire like gets in the driver's seat and then Sarah gets in the back seat

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Mm-Hmm,

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and before she even like turns the car on, like a big truck comes out of nowhere and hits them.

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them, um, right in the driver's side. So I, I, I think it's a drunk driving accident. He hits them,

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Yeah,

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in the driver's side, kills Claire instantly.

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quite instantly.

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but not, not dead, obviously. horrible. Horrible. Very tragic. But dead. Um, Sarah's alive. Sarah has

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Tragic.

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um, Sarah has some battle scars, but. For the most part, everything's fine. Um, she, well, not, everything's not fine. She's obviously dead

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sucks for her.

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I didn't know how to transition that. Obviously she's dead. It's obviously not fine.

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it was like cue the crickets. Okay. Yes.

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in

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So she is passed.

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I say next? Because she's dead. Um,

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She's passed. Michael calls Michael, which is the groom calls, um, what's her name? Meredith, in the middle of the night and is like, where's your parents pick up? Like tell'em to pick up the phone. They find out that her daughter, their daughters died. Um, and so yeah, this is a year after she's passed that they didn't go to the farm that year that she had passed.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

It

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And so this. The reasoning for the assassin game and all that is for, um, and like, it's like to honor Claire during the wedding week, week

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of assassin every year.

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assassin queen. Yeah.

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assassin

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And that was like her favorite game. And so, um,

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So

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yeah, so we find, but we find out about how she, we find out how she dies like on Monday or Tuesday. And now we're on Thursday and Sarah and Mare end up talking in the attic about her dying and about like, I think Sarah earlier in the week had brought up like that a story that happened the day she died to like the family, um, at the family dinner. And it rubbed. Meredith the wrong way. And so she was like, why would you say that story? You know, that's the day she died. Like, all those things. So they kind of have like, she talks about this, this feeling of, you know, I don't blame her, but I, I have these feelings towards her because, you know, she shouldn't have let her drink and she shouldn't, they shouldn't have been there. They should have gone home. And it's like easy to get wrapped in up in that, especially when a tragedy like that happens. And so they kind of iron out the wrinkles of their relationship then, and then that, then I think, I think then she's like, Hey, you want to go somewhere tonight? And so then that night at like midnight or whatever, her Witt, Sarah and Michael go and get donuts.

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Yeah. So

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Yeah, I think that's the first time you kind of see like the relationship form as like a double date, two couples types of thing. Whereas like that should have been. Claire and like whoever she ended up with. And so Meredith kind of stepping into this placement, you know, and is comfortable stepping into the placement. But, and it's not even mentioned, but I, as I was reading it, I kind of thought that,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Okay. And then

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um,

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I'm gonna kind of dive into this.

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yeah.

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I might skip a few parts, but just let me ramble. Okay.

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Okay. Okay.

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remember what happens. I don't remember what day it is. It might be Friday. I think it's before the wedding. might be after the wedding. I don't remember. But the wedding's not a big part in this book anyways. It really isn't.

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No, it's like one chapter.

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so the wedding doesn't really matter. There's a scene where Meredith has the phone, she's scrolling, she's with wit.

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Mm-Hmm.

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video on Wit's Instagram that she had missed previously, no.

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Sarah's Instagram.

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On Sarah's Instagram that she had missed previously. She's like stalking her cousin, as we all do, just like re-looking at memories.

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Yeah.

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And she sees a video from the night. She recognizes it as the night that Claire died and she sees, um, in the video, Witt is sitting next to Claire. So then it hits her like, holy shit, Whitt knew my sister. Why

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

this? So I thought this was really strange and I, not strange, but I thought it was, um, it just made me have a lot of thoughts because the book, she's telling Whitt about her sister throughout the book.

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Mm-Hmm.

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in Witt about how difficult this all is being around family being where her sister used to be. and she's telling him like they, her and Witt obviously became super close, and she told him all about Claire. Never once did he mention, oh, I, I knew her, Sarah or not Sarah Meredith is telling him, I wish you could have met Claire. You would've loved her. would've really liked

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Mm-Hmm.

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Not once did would say, oh, by the way, I did know Claire. I did meet Claire. And then at this point, we're kind of told by Meredith the night that Claire died, texted her sister And was like, oh my God, Meredith, like, you won't believe this. The stars are finally aligning. And that was like one of the last things she ever said to her sister Meredith. And Meredith responds, oh my gosh, did you meet a boy? And she never gets a response because she dies.

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Mm-Hmm.

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But, um, because she does. Um, at this point, once we find out Witt knew Claire, I'm thinking in my head, holy shit, this guy's creepy. Like he was dating Claire. Did you think that, did you think that Claire was interested in Witt? Never. You didn't.

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No.

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just shaking her head. thought, I thought at first I was like, oh my God, he's, she was into Witt and that's why she texted Meredith. And now Meredith is, they're dating and

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Mm-Hmm.

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weird and creepy. Um, but what we find out after we give wit a moment to explain himself, he says. And I made a note because guys are stupid and like, like, she's like, why did you never say anything to me? Why did I mentioned all the time about Claire and he was just like, I tried to, I tried to like shut up. No you didn't. Maybe he did, maybe he did. I don't know. they

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Yeah.

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that. They get over it. But then, basically what happens is Witt tells Meredith, like, Claire would not stop talking about you. She thought I was perfect for you. she thought we would be perfect together. So then what it's kind of told is that text message that I thought meant that Claire was in into it was basically Claire telling Meredith, I found the person for you. Like I found somebody. I'm gonna get you guys set up. And that's what

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Well, she always said, and well'cause early in the, well maybe not early, but probably like 25% in, in the book, there's something about like, you're gonna marry a Steven.

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Yeah,

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And I didn't, I didn't make the connection that his first name was Steven at all, but I was like, they wouldn't, I guess sometimes I come to a book based, like with the insight of a writer and so I was like, she's writing that for a reason, like that's gonna come back around.

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But yeah, there was like a weird point when there were kids that they would joke about Meredith marrying a Steven, kind of like you, like Abby. We used to say Abby was gonna marry an Eric and she didn't. But

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You also said I would marry somebody who was Spanish and I ended up with a Mexican, so

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but yeah, it was kinda like this running joke, I guess, that like she was gonna marry a Steven and then Wit's name, his first name is Steven. So then like Meredith is like, oh, the stars have aligned.

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Yeah, I'm trying to, I was trying to find the quote, but I can't find it.

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Mm. Yeah. It's not that important.

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well, like going back to the whole, he didn't tell her that he had met Claire. The story is that he quite literally just met her that one night

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one night. Sure. Ain't

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Yeah, and he says, like, she was talking to me about you, like it was not about like us, like wit and Claire doing anything. I don't know how I feel about it. I think it was in good faith that he didn't tell her about like, Hey, I knew Claire because I think it was really important for him to kind of digest who Claire was to her. And like throughout the book, she's always talking about Claire and she's always processing it. And it was like every little thing, which I get it, I'm not saying this is a bad thing, would kind of trigger her

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Yeah.

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to like, you know, cry or just be upset. And I feel like he kind of took that responsibility of like, I'm the only safe space.'cause even like in the place she was staying, she was staying in the room, the bunk room where like her sister used to sleep, so that's why she was spending the night with him so many nights.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

so much.

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So I, so I, I think he kind of took that responsibility and didn't wanna jump the gun. And I, I, he was trying to tell her, like, I started picking up on it the chapter before,'cause on the hike he was trying to tell her and she was like, I know I've been talking too much about her. Like, you feel like you know her type of thing.

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Yeah.

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I was surprised the cousin, I was surprised Sarah didn't say anything like Claire did know, like, like Claire did know him. Not in the sense of like, you should know this, but like, it just kind of spilling out. Like, I didn't know he wasn't telling you that.

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I don't know

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So like, that's kind of where things kind of broke down for me. But, um, I don't know. I just think it was, and then it was like I was more honestly I was more pissed off that he was pissed off, that like she had him and he, she didn't tell him

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Me too.

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the assassin game.

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It's always, and this is like, I will, oh gosh, I hate Anne love this about myself. I will always not like the angle of the male perspective. I, I like never understand it. I don't like it. I think like, dare I say this? I might regret saying this. I always think that the man is wrong. always do. It's rare that they're right and it does happen. I won't say never. It does happen and I have the

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Mm-Hmm.

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be able to acknowledge when it does, but like, really, dude, like she's pissed about so many other things and she's upset about so many other things and she didn't know how to tell you that she got you as a target and you're upset about it. Like he was so

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No. I think it was, I think it was just a misstep on the author. I think it was too much emphasis was then put on the game because at this point it's like things have changed. Like

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Like

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is at the end of the day, like assassin's just a game. This was her sister who fucking died. And it's like, let's, like, who gives a shit about this game anymore? Like, we need, like, we need to talk about how you knew my sister and you didn't tell me.

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threw

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And so it's like

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was like, well, why did you never tell me that you knew Claire? And he's like, well, why didn't you tell me you were, I was your target? And she's like, what?

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I, yeah, like I really wish he would've been like. Like, she would've been like, are you not mad at me for that? And he'd be like, no, I don't care about the game. Like, I care about like you and like your sister and let's talk about it. Yeah. I really, I wish that I had gone in that direction,

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And that

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but again, they're kids.

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how important this game is to these people. It's so strange, so odd.

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Yeah. But they are kids.

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know.

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Like, I don't know if I,

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they are kids. But like, I do like Witt as a character. And I did like, I do feel like he was fairly mature in the way that he did

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Mm-Hmm.

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Meredith throughout the, the week in the relationships. Like he was very aware of her. He was very, like comforting. He was, he was always there to like kind of be a shoulder for her if she needed it. Like, when they were driving and he like was driving a little too fast, he immediately recognized it, triggered her and like

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recognized it.

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car

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Yeah.

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and like, you know, cradled her and made sure she was okay. Like, I appreciated those things about him. So I don't like, I don't wanna use that as an excuse, like in that moment I think it was just literally him being a boy and being like having some heat on him. And she's like, why you not tell me this about my sister? And she,

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Yeah,

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kind of freaked out and turned it on her and then was like,

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I think one of the bigger themes of this, of this book

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shit.

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grief and is how, you know, I think grief affects like the, the, and like the, the direct people involved. And then I think it also affects the indirect people. And I think this book was trying to emphasize on those indirect people.'cause even like, is it the friend or a cousin, like Lly, I like had a huge problem with her throughout the book of like, well, you didn't text me back and you call me back. And it's like, yeah, she just lost like her other half. Like

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Like it's

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I think especially in that first year, and like we know it firsthand, that first year is so difficult. And so it's like You know, we do rely or you do rely on other people to kind of like, maybe not meet you halfway meet you 70%. And like you, they be the ones to like reach out and be like, Hey, I know you're going through this. Can I do anything for you?

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Mm-Hmm.

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then like when things start getting better, like have that conversation and like, I think people who are in that grief recognized the work.

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you need when you're in that, when you're in that. Um, and speaking from firsthand experience when we lost our father, when you're in that, especially the first year, you're right, yes. You want people to continue to reach out, to continue to text without expectation of response

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

it is so, can feel so, um, draining respond to people. I remember people would reach out a lot and we wouldn't respond,

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It's hard enough to like

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at me

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get up outta bed and put pants on.

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Yeah. Like, what do you mean? It's hard for us to open our eyelids. Our father just died. Our world just stopped. know what I mean? And I'm sure

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Yeah,

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felt the same way. Her sister like, holy shit, we lost our dad. Like, I couldn't imagine losing you or Amanda that would just, the whole

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yeah.

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end. like,

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Yeah.

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I, I didn't like that either. And that was her whole character was being upset

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Mm-Hmm?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Meredith for not responding. And she's, and Meredith is kind of saying to the readers, like, I I know, I, I, maybe I was wrong and I'm just, I wanted to scream at her like, no, you, you were not wrong for handling your grief how you needed to in, in that time. But she

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Yeah.

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she felt like she owed this girl such an apology for not like keeping up her friendships and this, this girl is like, we were trying to be there for you. We blah, blah, blah. And she's like, I know, and I appreciated it, but like understand that like I didn't have the capacity to respond to you guys. And then it was

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Mm-Hmm.

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like, oh, you only care about your, your boy crazy. You only care about your boyfriends.

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boyfriend. Yeah. And then like, I was gonna say, I think it's the time when they're eating gumbo and like all the friends are together and like, I forget who says it, one of the people says like, well you did ghost her. And it's like, why is this getting pushed on her? Like what?

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Yeah. It was

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Yeah. So I I, but that's the author like that, that she made that decision and I don't know if she's, um, lost people. And I, I, it's just, I, I, I just think that was something that was missed and could have been worked on. And

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was interesting'cause

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I really wanted, I just wanted Witt to like, maybe be that character to be like, okay, this is a game. Yeah. And we're having fun, but at the end of the day, the book is about this family getting over this passing and like learning how to live with this empty hole. So like, I wanna make sure you're okay and I wanna make sure that like, you know, where I was with Claire and like That's so cool. That like. I had met your sister who you love so much before she had passed. Like there's, you know, you're on TikTok sometimes and you see like people who have lost family and they're like, but my mom was, you know, my husband's preschool teacher and we didn't know. And like, you find those things out and how like, heartwarming is that?'cause like once you get married, like, yeah, I wish Jose had met dad. So like, that's such a beautiful thing to have. And so I wish the emphasis would've been more on that than like, you know, well you de you, uh, betrayed me and I you betrayed me. So, I don't know.

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and like,

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my commentary on it, I guess.

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those perspectives do will come in time in the moment. I could see how that would've been upsetting for

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Yeah.

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hold that information from her. I could see both perspectives for sure.

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

see both for sure. But

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Well, let's get,

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glad

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let's,

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up about the friend.

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yeah. Well, I know we're running low on time, but let's just, um, go through the rest of the book basically. Um, they decide, they're just gonna pretend because he's going to Australia anyways. Their relationship was gonna be done at the end of the week. So they decide to pretend through the wedding. The wedding happens. Well, no, the wedding day they wake up. Wedding day the assassin showdown happens,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yep.

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it's basically like Hunger Games 2.0 and, um, Whit wins.

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winds. He's the assassin.

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And, um, yeah, this day she's just kind of like deciding if she should go to Australia with him or like what she should do, um, that she bikes to the ceremony of the wedding.

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It is so weird.

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That was the weirdest thing to me.

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I don't know. They're all fucking weird and she doesn't have shoes on either. How you biking without shoes?

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No,

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It's weird,

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I mean, as a kid I biked without shoes, but I'm like, you like got your hair and makeup done and now you're gonna be biking.

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I don't know.

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I don't know. Anyways, wedding happens. Wedding reception happens. Cute Wedding reception, they're like dancing and they're having fun. They're like, yeah, we love each other, all this, blah, blah, blah. Um, then they sneak off to the Secret Beach and they end up having sex on the beach for the last time and then Sunday.

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not

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the next morning.

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Not practical at all.

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What do you mean having sex on the beach

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I can't see a world where that's practical, but continue.

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What do you mean?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

having sex on a, on a bed

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Um,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

No.

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have done it.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Nah.

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Theresa Guide us said she's had sex on the beach.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Put some respect on her name. That's Theresa Judice.

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Judi, sorry, I don't want housewives. I was I was at Beverly Hillbillies.

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what

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That's an old show. Okay. Um. So everyone, so Sunday morning they wake up. Mary's families.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Housewives of New Jersey mixed up with the Beverly Hillbillies? Is that what you're saying?

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No, I just almost said it

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh my God. I was about to slap you through the screen.

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instead. No. So Sunday morning they wake up, Meredith's family's leaving. Everybody else is like staying, but they're the only ones who are leaving. And she realizes Whitt has already left and she realizes she wants to be with Whitt. So she chases after him on the ferry?

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he leaves, shocker she wants to be with him. So she runs and tries to catch the ferry that he's on. Right.

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And then she's like, says, I wrote it down. She says, Hey Steven. I called and two seconds later I was right next to him. I grinned, took his hand and said, tell me more about New Zealand.

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And then it ended.

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And then it kind of goes to like the epilogue and it's one year later. And I, I hated this epilogue.

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You did?

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I didn't, I didn't like it.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Well. I

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It didn't add anything.

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didn't add anything. did like, I mean. I mean, I, what was there to really add? Did she go to Australia or not? That's all I was looking for. She did not,

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Yeah,

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I thought was the right decision. I appreciated that.

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yeah,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

She's, she says like, she did not go to Australia. She says, I, I thought about it and I decided, you know, I needed to be at home and go to this school and do what I was planning on doing instead of picking up and running away with a boy, which honestly, if I had the

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Mm-Hmm?

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

probably would've gone to Australia. But that's just me. I don't know.

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Yeah. I probably would've too.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

if you had the means to do it. But he goes to Australia, they keep a

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

while he's there, and then he comes home and they're together.

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He comes back and he ends up living on the farm and Sarah Michael, who had gotten married the year before now have a baby, and they named her Claire.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh shit. Yeah, you're right.

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The sister, and then that's when they all announced that they have like a cleric trophy and it's called the Claire Cup. And so now the game assassin is like always gonna be in Claire's memory, which is sweet.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah,

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

That's so

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And then, uh, yeah, like ends

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I didn't realize, I guess you remember how, I mean there was 700 aunts and uncles, one of the aunts had a baby in the middle of the fucking wedding or something

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Yeah. I forget what she named it.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

at the end of the book, I thought, in the epilogue. I thought they were talking about that baby. Or did Sarah and Michael

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No,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

baby?

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it's Sarah and Michael had a baby.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

oh, okay. I

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Yeah, because it then it says like, the mother, the mother, something comes running out looking for her and is,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

have that with

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and it's Sarah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Okay,

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

whatever. All right. What are you writing it?

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I rated a 3.8

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I read it a three

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fair.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I just didn't

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I thought it was good. I thought it was like it was a cute young adult book. It was just a little too young for me.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Too

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still thought it was sweet. There were some things that just, I wish were flushed out more, but like at the end of the day, like it was, it was, it was decent.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah.

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It was sweet. There was times where I was like, oh, that's cute.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah.

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Um,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I loved the, the cringe factor was fun. The backstroke killed me. They really did. I can't imagine in a world, can't imagine a world where I'm backs stroking to my crush. How think. I can't think

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Yeah. I guess it is odd.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I can't think of a more

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I guess it is a lot.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

There's no man that's like, oh damn, baby, that backstroke. Look at that

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Look at that backstroke,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

now. Just weird.

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Just a try hard

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

were they going? Where was she? Backstroking? Just

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him on the float.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh my God.

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

It's so weird. She's backstroking to him. What a, what a choice. What

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so, her boob is Russell when she is,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh, maybe it was a boob thing. Maybe she was trying to shake her boobies. Maybe. I don't know. I just thought it was an odd choice. It's an

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um,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

odd stroke.

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it wasn't on choice.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah,

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There was this quote, I didn't say it earlier. There's this quote on page one 15 that I thought was funny and it's the dad talking and he goes, Don, forget to take your gun. Dad said, after I changed clothes, he stepped his coffee. You never know who you're gonna run into And it's like, if you took that outta context, like it's like what the hell? I think the dad was my favorite.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh.

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don't know. I just really liked the dad.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

That was

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whole Funfetti thing got me.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

forget your gun. You never know who you'll run into. Honestly. Facts, dad. Just spitting facts. Dad's just spitting facts.

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Yeah. But

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

He is not

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that is, he's not wrong. That is the summer of broken rules

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Again, still looking for the broken rule, but you know.

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah.

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That's very valid. I didn't recognize that. But next week we, it's Y week and we're doing

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I'm so

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divine.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

It's gonna be a good one.

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I've heard. It's a good one. So I'm excited.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I started it last night.

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Okay, good.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah.

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it's Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Mm-Hmm?

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going back into the fantasy world.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah. We took it light this month. I took it, I took it easy on Abby. Next month we'll get

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Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

um, darker stuff For sure. For me.

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lovely. But um.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

choices next month is a thriller.

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I think so. I forgot what I wrote down.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah. The Mia Sheridan one.

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Yeah. Love Mia Sheridan. So,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

She

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but she did archer's voice, so I was, she did archer's voice, which is pretty different than like a, it's not like a thriller. So I was in suspense, so I was interested to see how she does this.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Archer's Voice is one of my favorite books of the year that I've read.

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That's a sweet book

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Oh my

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and sweet.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I loved that book so much. So I'm excited. That's what

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

I saw her name on the, on our list, I was like, oh, yay. I love that. Exciting stuff.

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All right.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Alright, well.

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Well, thank you guys for tuning in. Tune into next Wednesday for Divine Rivals. Um, you can follow us on Instagram now at my sister Mamie Readit podcast. Amy's Amy Preti. I am Abby Preti. Uh, please rate us on what,

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

thing to say,

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what it

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Okay, so listening back to our recordings, I wanna just clear one thing up. I don't, I'm not against a men drinking tea I do think

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You don't wanna be canceled.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Okay? I do think they can drink tea. It just came off the conversation, the context I had the conversation in. I thought

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Yeah.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

that he was drinking tea.

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It's funny too'cause we were talking about Icks last week and I started seeing all this stuff about icks and like things on social media and stuff, and people were commenting on all these stuff and it was like, if you have an ick in your relationship, then you don't really love each other. And I was like, well

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

that's obviously not true, That's obviously not true.

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I still very much love my husband.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Yeah, I don't talk to this boy anymore. Maybe I just got egged out by the tea, but I just wanted to clear that up. I do think men can steep their own tea. I think they can put honey in their tea and still be manly and masculine. That's all I have to say. Thank you very much.

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All right. All right. So write us on the platform platform you're listening to please. We really need help with that. Um, give us your thoughts on this book. Give us your, what you rated it, uh, tell us what you want us to read in the future. We're definitely taking recommendations. Um, if you would rather, there's a form on our link tree in the buy over Instagram that's anonymous if you wanna put it all there. That's great. Um, yeah, that's about it.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

That's it.

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Alright, well we'll see you guys next week.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Bye.

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Bye. Love you.

squadcaster-ee7f_1_12-16-2023_111958:

Love you.

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