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SC BOOKGAL & FRIENDS PODCAST EVERY 1ST THROUGH 4TH TUESDAY · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Tuck.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention please? The
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  Speaker 2: show starts in ten Lie seven six five starts in
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  Speaker 2: Tenney seven six five four three two one go.
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  Speaker 1: Heveryone. This is your girl, Patree scrumbled, missus sc book
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  Speaker 1: out eight four three And how are you tonight? This
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  Speaker 1: labor day has been beautiful. I'm kind of down, but
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  Speaker 1: I am back up and I am good, and I
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  Speaker 1: am ready for tonight. I have a new author and
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  Speaker 1: a new book. So y'all know, go ahead and get
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  Speaker 1: your pens, your papers, everything you need so you can
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  Speaker 1: write this one down and this one perfect time. That's
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  Speaker 1: all I'm gonna say. She's gonna tell you why. It's
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  Speaker 1: perfect time, perfect timing for this one. Okay. But tonight
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  Speaker 1: we're bringing up the author of Shapes, author Howard. Come
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  Speaker 1: on up, girly, how are you hi? Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: having me, thank you for joining us tonight. So before
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  Speaker 1: we go any further, tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Shabrianne Howard.
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  Speaker 3: I am a thirty five year old author, filmmaker, photographer,
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  Speaker 3: graphic designer. Uh Sickle Cell Advocate September Sickle Cel Awareness Month.
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  Speaker 4: And also mental health advocate.
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  Speaker 1: So now you goutys see why I said this book
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  Speaker 1: is like right on time. Oh y'all still don't know? Yeah, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna take this a little step further, but y'all
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to stay tuned. So out of all of
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  Speaker 1: those things you just named, which one is the most
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  Speaker 1: important to you?
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  Speaker 5: And why.
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  Speaker 3: I would It's a dual answer, but all in all,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it still goes back to advocacy. My sickle
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  Speaker 3: cell and mental health advocacy means the most to me.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that's my true passion, and I feel
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  Speaker 3: like everything else that I do is gifts and tools
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  Speaker 3: that enables me to relate to others and to help
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  Speaker 3: bring more awareness and education about sickle cell, about you know,
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  Speaker 3: kidney disease, about mental health.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, so you guys, this month is National Sickle
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  Speaker 1: Cell Awareness Month. Okay, I want to ask you what
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  Speaker 1: does that mean to you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it means work.
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  Speaker 3: Because a lot of people tend to want to know
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  Speaker 3: more during this month more than any other month. So
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  Speaker 3: because I'm an advocate, I tried to find different ways
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  Speaker 3: to bring more education, bring more unity and collaboration in
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  Speaker 3: my community.
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  Speaker 4: So for me, it means.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to be having panel discussions that I've put
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  Speaker 3: together and I'm hosting. It means that I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: be publishing my issue too to my Simple Cell magazine.
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  Speaker 4: Later this month.
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  Speaker 3: So it just means that there is a lot to
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  Speaker 3: do for a little bit of time, but I try
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  Speaker 3: to make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: So on this screen, you guys see this beautiful book
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  Speaker 1: cover sheets. Now look at the hearts and think about
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  Speaker 1: what we just said. Wow, missus Howard tells us a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about this story.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So Shapes, by the way, I actually designed that cover myself,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm very proud of it. Yes, Shapes is a
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  Speaker 3: sickle soul love story to a fiction novel, and it's
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  Speaker 3: about four couples, eight main characters who all have sickle
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  Speaker 3: cell some type of sickle cell, and it just covers
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  Speaker 3: love in every capacity. So it you know, in the book,
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  Speaker 3: there is the main character, Dara, and I'm sorry your
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  Speaker 3: her daughter is Dara, and there she has you know,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, she has a daughter. So it has
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  Speaker 3: parental relationships, it has romantic relationships. She's running away from
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  Speaker 3: an abusive relationship and she ends up finding, you know,
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  Speaker 3: someone unexpectedly and falls in love and unbeknownst to her,
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  Speaker 3: this guy actually has sickle cell too, so he brings
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  Speaker 3: her into this you know, big family almost of just people.
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  Speaker 3: His best friend has sickle cell and you know, or
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  Speaker 3: a couple of his best friends have sickle cell, and
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  Speaker 3: uh their their significant others also have sickle cell.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a very.
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  Speaker 3: You know, rocky love story because it covers again relationships,
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  Speaker 3: it covers siblings, it covers you know, long lost family.
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  Speaker 3: It's so much that it unpacks. That's why it's if
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  Speaker 3: I showed it. It's a very thick book. However, it's
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  Speaker 3: a page turner, it really is, and it and it
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  Speaker 3: goes into so much real issues that sickle cell patients
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  Speaker 3: run into and have. But it's all it is a
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  Speaker 3: fictional story. It's I have characters that I you know,
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  Speaker 3: I use people that I that are in my life
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  Speaker 3: who also have sickle soul as a base for those characters.
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  Speaker 3: And I just kind of did character development into something
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  Speaker 3: just beautiful. And I keep getting hounded and threatened for
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  Speaker 3: a part two, So I guess I did something right.
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  Speaker 5: Because I see there's Uhor and then because ther is
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  Speaker 5: running away from Nate I can tell. And then we
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  Speaker 5: have Drell and Tina, Mika and Charles, yes, Robin and
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  Speaker 5: Chad and am I missing a couple?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, you're just name.
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  Speaker 3: The one mess yes, oh yeah, because Robin wasn't like
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  Speaker 3: a like a.
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  Speaker 4: It was more like a.
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  Speaker 3: You know, she didn't know who to choose that first
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  Speaker 3: type situation and so she was with someone else and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so and then uh, there's your sister and well her
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  Speaker 3: long long sister that she ended up finding. So it's
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  Speaker 3: like I said, it's a lot of different characters. It's
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  Speaker 3: a complex story, but it's very easy to understand.
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  Speaker 4: It's very relatable. It's something that.
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  Speaker 3: Actually dives into, you know, just what it's like to
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  Speaker 3: have sickle cell, what it's like to try to be
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  Speaker 3: in love and have sickle cell, what it's like to
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  Speaker 3: try to be a parent and have sickle cell, the
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  Speaker 3: mistakes you make, the the way friendships kind of go
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  Speaker 3: from amazing to what is this? You know, it covers
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  Speaker 3: so much that at the end of the day, I'm
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  Speaker 3: this is something I'm truly proud of because I know
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  Speaker 3: there is even though it's a fictional story, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of.
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  Speaker 4: Truth to it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, understandable. So that's an author. How did you how
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  Speaker 1: did you deal with stressful situations with your characters in
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  Speaker 1: this book?
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  Speaker 3: So okay, there's a favorite part of this story where
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people love it because there are times when.
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  Speaker 4: You know, these main characters are.
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  Speaker 3: Victimized in certain ways, but then there are times when
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  Speaker 3: they stand up and so and and and one of
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  Speaker 3: the I can you know one of the.
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  Speaker 4: Parts of the books h.
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  Speaker 3: Geor Tina they go and they take a back to
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  Speaker 3: someone's house and them it's not all violent, but that
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  Speaker 3: was set up to that point. They some people might
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  Speaker 3: say that that character may have deserved it, and.
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  Speaker 1: So I know who it is, Yeah, he deserves just
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  Speaker 1: by the I read he deserved it.
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  Speaker 3: M h oh someone else coming to him that that
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  Speaker 3: they definitely did something, Nate, but it was it was
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  Speaker 3: another character actually who It's just it's a friendship. It's
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  Speaker 3: a friendship that goes really really really sour, you know, jealousy,
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  Speaker 3: envy and things and just doing things to sabotage a
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  Speaker 3: person and just their whole life. So once that came out,
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  Speaker 3: it was just kind of like get out, let's go.
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  Speaker 4: Like what like we righte that down?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, don't ask no questions, getting close to doing
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  Speaker 1: just look forward, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So it's you know, and it's it just
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  Speaker 3: shows that you know, that camaraderie, that sisterhood that you know,
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  Speaker 3: you go through so much, you can you can even
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  Speaker 3: argue and fall out with someone, but that the love
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  Speaker 3: and that relationship is still solid.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, I'm willing to go to jail and
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  Speaker 4: take a charge for you girls.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we all have had or have or will
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  Speaker 1: have that one. Even my ten year old has her
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  Speaker 1: best friend in her phone, y'all. This chick has the
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  Speaker 1: girls naming her phone as my ride of die. Well
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  Speaker 1: you know about that at ten years old. But I've
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  Speaker 1: seen in action, right and I was like, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: what y'all.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you get like that.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, it does.
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  Speaker 4: It goes, It goes there and back.
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  Speaker 3: It really does. It's a very emotional, very just just
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  Speaker 3: it takes you through all the emotions, through happiness. You
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  Speaker 3: laugh with them, you cry with them, you get mad
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  Speaker 3: with them. You ready, you feel like you went them
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  Speaker 3: with the back, like everything is just like oh okay, story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you publish this story and you got that
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  Speaker 1: book in your hands, Shapes, and you had your baby
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  Speaker 1: in your hand? How did it feel once you had
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  Speaker 1: that completed project?
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  Speaker 3: It was like nothing I ever could like it was
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  Speaker 3: all It was almost like when I had my own child,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I so almost the same exact way.
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  Speaker 4: It was kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Like because I had been writing since I was seven
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  Speaker 3: years old, So I think I published Shapes. I might
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  Speaker 3: have been thirty one, somewhere around that, and so it's
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  Speaker 3: been a long time coming, you know, it's been a
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  Speaker 3: long time just to have that physical representation of the
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  Speaker 3: hard work, the blood, the sweat, the tears, the times
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  Speaker 3: that I would sit there for hours and hours and
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  Speaker 3: hours writing and so.
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  Speaker 4: It just felt amazing, really did it.
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  Speaker 1: So what is your writing environment?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 1: I know some authors say they go sit in their cars.
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  Speaker 1: Some authors say I have to sit in a quiet place.
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  Speaker 1: Some authors say they have to listen to certain music.
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  Speaker 1: But what is your writing space? How does it layout?
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  Speaker 3: I think it just depends. My perfect Like writing moment
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  Speaker 3: would be at the beach. I love writing at the beach. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like the waves, the water, or give me a lake,
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  Speaker 3: give me something that's just quiet and secluded and I
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  Speaker 3: could just sit there and write and I could just
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  Speaker 3: hear the water.
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  Speaker 4: That is perfect, that is literally like almost heaven.
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  Speaker 3: So that but like the typical writing for me would
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  Speaker 3: be at a desk it's silent, or I could be
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  Speaker 3: listening to music. Sometimes I listen to music depending on
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  Speaker 3: like the mood the characters are in. So it helps
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  Speaker 3: me to kind of, you know, bring that out a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more. So as long as I have some
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  Speaker 3: music and a desk, ard table.
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  Speaker 1: And a pin.
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  Speaker 4: I like physically writing it out first and then I
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  Speaker 4: type it. That's just how I've always been. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's pretty much my whole.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I do. So you like to physically write
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  Speaker 1: it first. So when you go back and type what
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  Speaker 1: you wrote, are you sometimes shocked of what you wrote?
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  Speaker 1: You'd be like, did I ever come over you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, because sometimes I'm like, how did I even?
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  Speaker 3: Because sometimes I challenge myself, Like I'll have an idea
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, I wonder if I can do that,
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  Speaker 3: and where could ill like, where could I take my
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  Speaker 3: imagination in this part of the story, And so I'll
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  Speaker 3: just literally lose myself in the story and by the
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  Speaker 3: time I'm going back to type it out and i'm
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  Speaker 3: reading it, I'm like, wow, whoa, this is amazing that
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  Speaker 3: what is okay?
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  Speaker 1: I can see that. So your cover, let's go back
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  Speaker 1: to this cover. Big congrats in designing it yourself, love it.
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  Speaker 1: How did you come out? How did you come up
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  Speaker 1: with the idea of your actual cover?
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  Speaker 3: So, as you can see, they're actually sickle cells. The hearts,
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  Speaker 3: the top of the hearts are sickle cells. So I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to incorporate.
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  Speaker 1: The shape.
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  Speaker 3: Everything is about the shape of what sickle cel kind
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  Speaker 3: of causes. You know, it's a ripple effect. So I
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  Speaker 3: took you know, the shape of you know, ourselves, the
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  Speaker 3: people who have to sell, and I put it into
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  Speaker 3: those hearts because we do have a very unique way
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  Speaker 3: of loving and we love people very very, very very deeply.
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  Speaker 3: So I just kind of wanted to put that into
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  Speaker 3: a visual form. I feel like I did an okay job,
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  Speaker 3: you did do it.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't do it, Okay, you did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: You did a great job. So remember backstage, I told
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  Speaker 1: you I had those fun questions. Yes, I remember, Are
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  Speaker 1: you ready for them?
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  Speaker 4: I'm ready?
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  Speaker 1: All right? All right here if we go, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about Robin and Chat. So now we miss filmmaker, we
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  Speaker 1: have to make this film about the book stars Shapes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but we need to get some stars to
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  Speaker 1: play in Shapes. So, first question, who would play Robin
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  Speaker 1: if Robin was an R and B diva? And why
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  Speaker 1: did you choose that person?
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  Speaker 5: Mmm?
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  Speaker 4: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: So fun fact, before I published this book, I put
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  Speaker 3: it out on What Path first, and the way what
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  Speaker 3: Path works is you can use actual pictures, right, and
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  Speaker 3: so what I did was I actually used sickle Cell
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  Speaker 3: Warriors are different people that I knew.
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  Speaker 4: Who were into you know, music and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 3: Robin, although you know you're asking me like who famous
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  Speaker 3: would I choose? I probably would still choose the person
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  Speaker 3: that I asked to use her photos because she's actually
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  Speaker 3: she has to so she's a model, she's an actress,
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  Speaker 3: and she's very beautiful. Her name is Marlene Ross and
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  Speaker 3: she is like gorgeous, and every time I see Robin,
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  Speaker 3: I just see her because that's who I used for those.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well she is pretty yeah. Okay, So now who
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  Speaker 1: would play Chad?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Chad? Mmm, I think Chad. I'm trying to think of
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  Speaker 3: someone younger because I did use Feeley and Eko he's
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  Speaker 3: a rapper. No, that's not Chad. I'm sorry, but uh, Chad,
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  Speaker 3: I think I would use like, what is his name?
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  Speaker 3: Lance Gross? I would use something like all right, yes,
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  Speaker 3: his name. That's why it's like leaving me.
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  Speaker 1: Uh what did he playing? Maybe I can help you out.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, he plays in he plays in pe Valley. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: the one that was security guard. Oh lord Jesus, I
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  Speaker 3: know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Who was his name? Okay? His name is Tyler?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm I'm sorry. I'm still mad at
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  Speaker 1: p Valley because we've waited on season three for how
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  Speaker 1: long since COVID the Valley been not dried up by now? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's go, let's go, let's go. It's like, come on.
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  Speaker 1: As matter of fact, it ended on his storyline because
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  Speaker 1: he got m.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, like, you can't leave us off like that
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  Speaker 4: on all the.
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  Speaker 1: Do that that's just wrong and murder and that's just
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  Speaker 1: focus trees focus.
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  Speaker 4: Like that, because that's why I do.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I couldn't think of his name, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't I start going off into Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so we got another question from the high Okay, I
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  Speaker 3: have lifetime on the line. They love the book, they
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  Speaker 3: love the way you turn the book into a movie,
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  Speaker 3: So they would like to do a bio pic on you.
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  Speaker 1: Who would you give the honor of playing you? And why?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I would have to say I would just say
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  Speaker 3: Taraji because I love her so much, like so so much.
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  Speaker 4: I've always wanted to work with tarajis And so I know.
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  Speaker 3: If she's older, but she's so she has if she can,
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  Speaker 3: you know, look younger, she looks the same for when
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  Speaker 3: she played the baby Boy. So it was just because
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  Speaker 3: I know she knows how to capture emotions and go
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  Speaker 3: there and really like lose herself in the role but
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  Speaker 3: still capture the sense of what she's make me capture.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that would be my first choice for
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  Speaker 3: like the older me. Okay, all right, we'll see see
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  Speaker 3: my heart that the questions weren't that bad for they no.
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  Speaker 4: Not at all, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: So we are coming. We're coming to the end of
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  Speaker 1: our show, and we would like to know how we
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  Speaker 1: can follow you on all your social media's. We have
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  Speaker 1: the information scrolling at the bottom screen, but can you
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  Speaker 1: tell us like anything you have coming out book signings?
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  Speaker 1: You say you're you're for the.
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  Speaker 4: Filmmaker.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, and I can never say the words correctly.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell us anything you want us to know?
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  Speaker 1: Just give us the rundown.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, Yes, I'm shavery on Howard on most of social
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  Speaker 3: media or Shapeyon the Advocate. You can also find me
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  Speaker 3: on shape heyndadvocate dot com. I'm also on TikTok under
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  Speaker 3: chef Shape made it because I'm also a chef, I
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  Speaker 3: do a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 3: So what I have coming up is I'm starting to
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  Speaker 3: do Impact Thursdays, which will be a live panel discussion
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  Speaker 3: about just the impact of sickle cell advocacy and you
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  Speaker 3: know where we are, where we're going, and where we
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  Speaker 3: need to be basically. So I'm so excited about that.
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  Speaker 3: I have a beautiful lineup of people of wonderful, amazing
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  Speaker 3: advocates who if I started naming who I have, it's
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  Speaker 3: like crazy to me. And I also have, as I
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  Speaker 3: said it before, I have a magazine coming out issue too,
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  Speaker 3: which is this is the first issue here, just show it.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a Sickle Cell Singed magazine. And so issue
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: two will be out.
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  Speaker 3: I know you can never see it, but yeah, Issue
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: two will be out. And also I have Write or
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Died that is out, and I would like people to
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: please purchase this book because I want to put out
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: part two for people. There is a part two that
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: one's already written. Part two of Shapes is not but
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: this one has a part two already and I would
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: love to put it out, but I want people to
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: buy it part one. So yeah, and also again, I
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: do have Shapes that's out, and I also have the
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Deepest Parts of Me, which is my poetry collection. I
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: uh named it that because my poetry is literally the
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: deepest part of me. So I just put it out
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  Speaker 3: on paper and I'm actually gonna be putting out the
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: special edition to that one later this year as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's it.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Well, y'all see she she is telling you, guys to
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: go get ride and die.
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  Speaker 4: We will have that.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one that's actually in her flyer piece. But look,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: you got all her information at the bottom.
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  Speaker 3: She has a website, Her books are found on Amazon.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: She has the magazine, she has a YouTube page.
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  Speaker 1: All those links you see scrolling at the bottom of
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the page. So you go ahead and you can pause
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: it and get the information you need, or she has
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: it in her LinkedIn, which I'm gonna add your LinkedIn
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to this too so they can have that also. But
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: before we leave, what would you like to say to
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: your old readers, your new readers, and the readers you
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: will gain after this podcast.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: I would like to say to my old readers, thank
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: you so much for staying staying with me through it all,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: through the through the uncertainty, through the insecurity of not
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: you know, wanting to put out my work. For so
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: long I didn't want to put my work out and
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: then I just did it.
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  Speaker 5: And so.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, thank you for being patient, thank you for being kind,
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: thank you for your support, thank you for always encouraging
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  Speaker 3: me to keep going.
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  Speaker 5: It means.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: It truly means a lot to me, it really does.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: I also want to thank the new readers who are
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: just finding me and not knowing quite yet how crazy
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: my stories can get. But once you get to the end,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: you know you will want more. So that is that
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: is a promise that I that I keep. I keep
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: my word on that. I'm very serious about wanting people
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: to know just want to know more and want to
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: have more of those stories than those characters. I take
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: my time to very to develop and to cultivate the
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: characters in a way.
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  Speaker 4: That means a lot to people.
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  Speaker 3: So thank you for coming on this journey with me,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: and also for those who will come on this journey,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: buckle up because to getting started and it's it's fun
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: over here. So just know that I'm very entertaining and
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: I'm very passionate about what I do and I just
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: love it. There's a very sincere love that I have
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: for writing so and you can tell with with my words.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: So yeah, well you heard it from her first. Guys,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: thank you for joining us tonight. You guys, go get
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: grab Shapes and go grab right to Die. They both
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: are out now make sure you follow her on all
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: your social media platforms. And before we end the show tonight,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I want to send my heartfelt condolences to one of
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the members of the crew with the loss of her son,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Black Diamond. Do know that we love you, my family,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the whole crew. We're praying for you. You have our
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers and we standing behind you, baby girl.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: You guys, it's another Tuesday night, a new author and
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: a new book. Go grab it and I'm gonna see
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: you guys next week Tuesday. I actually not have any
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: more shows this week. That's kind of shocking. But next
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: week I got too and one of them. I am
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: so excited about it, but trying to get this off
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: the on my show for the longest, and my literary
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: baby daddy finally agrees, So y'all want to stay tuned
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: on next week Thursday. But you guys, have a great night.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Remember there's no such thing as an old book because
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: not everybody has read every book. Good night. Everyone won