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Hello Baby From Sandra Magsamen A Newborn Buzzing Goin On · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Wow, there you are. Where have you been? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm great? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely excited to share another conversation with you? Because you
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  Speaker 1: just have this way of releasing books at the absolute
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  Speaker 1: perfect time, and Hello baby is coming into my life.
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  Speaker 1: When my neighbors across the street who I mean, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Garrick and Hannah for all these years have gotten your
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  Speaker 1: books from me, and all of a sudden, I now
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  Speaker 1: give them Hello Baby, and they're going, how did she know?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going, I don't know. I don't know she
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  Speaker 1: And so I've got to ask you, how did you
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  Speaker 1: know that they were going to have a baby over there?
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  Speaker 1: Inside their home. So now baby makes three and you're
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  Speaker 1: coming with this book for them to say this, this
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  Speaker 1: is the way it's gonna be. Oh my god, I
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  Speaker 1: can see myself in the mirror and it's you are
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  Speaker 1: so in touch.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. I love when you know my great grandfather didn't
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  Speaker 2: at the wiki board to have a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: something something somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the way that you have mastered the art of
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  Speaker 1: simplicity with with your with your illustrator and everything. What
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  Speaker 1: I love is the fact is that it's it's almost
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  Speaker 1: like you can see us like the days And this
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  Speaker 1: is probably gonna date me big time. You remind me
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  Speaker 1: of the of the host of Romper Room when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid. She's made me feel like that she
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  Speaker 1: could physically see me. And that's what I get out
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  Speaker 1: of your books, that you can see me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I love that, wasn't that, Miss Sally?
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  Speaker 1: I think it was, Yes, it was, so you know
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  Speaker 1: then yes, yes, no.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I really feel very strongly that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of the most important things about being a human
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  Speaker 2: being is to be seen and accepted and loved. So
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  Speaker 2: this book is really about welcoming the newest member of
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  Speaker 2: the human race with a message that they are. We've
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  Speaker 2: been waiting for you, we've anticipated you. You are a
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  Speaker 2: hope and our dreams, and we see you and we
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  Speaker 2: love you. So that's what this book is all about.
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  Speaker 2: You have just nailed it completely.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, there's going to be adults that are
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  Speaker 1: going to pick up this book and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: giggle and laugh because I had my moment too, is
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  Speaker 1: I would love to be a fly on the wall
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  Speaker 1: when people come across you're our little stinker. We've all
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  Speaker 1: been through that moment. And you just sit there and
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  Speaker 1: you just laugh because now all of a sudden, your
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  Speaker 1: memories of your grandparents are hitting you, and then of
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  Speaker 1: course your neighbor who called you a stinker and all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Is it's like you pick the
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  Speaker 1: right words.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well thank you, well yeah, these are all terms
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  Speaker 2: of endearment, and already hearing from parents. We call our
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  Speaker 2: baby this, we call our this. Of course, my daughter
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  Speaker 2: called her our little boogoo because when I was carrying her,
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  Speaker 2: she would kick me so much it would be a
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  Speaker 2: boogoo every time. So she is still my little boogoo.
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  Speaker 2: And we all have those words where we just begin
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  Speaker 2: to embrace and you know, wrap our love around the
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  Speaker 2: little one and this These are the words that we
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  Speaker 2: universally use, and I love sharing them and reminding people how.
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  Speaker 1: Important they are well in the beauty of what you do.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like, and I'm going to be very open
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  Speaker 1: and honest with you, and I'm sure I'm not the
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  Speaker 1: only one. These are words inside Hello, Baby that I
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  Speaker 1: wish my mother would have said to me. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that a lot of adults are going to get
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  Speaker 1: this and they're going to feel this and go, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard it, and now I see it in this book.
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  Speaker 1: I feel something now because she really did understand that
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  Speaker 1: I needed to hear just a few short words, but
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  Speaker 1: it was enough for me to really have a better day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that that that you were valued and that
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  Speaker 2: you were hers and that you mattered, and like the
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  Speaker 2: love just stills out and all these ways, and that's
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  Speaker 2: the whole point of it. You know. It really is
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  Speaker 2: a love song to say hello, and it's a hug
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  Speaker 2: and an embrace, and it starts that baby off on
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  Speaker 2: our planet with, you know, surrounded by family that loves
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  Speaker 2: and embraces them. And what could be better? You know,
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  Speaker 2: what do we need more of today? For all the
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  Speaker 2: children on the planet is them to know that we
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  Speaker 2: see them and we love them, and we care for them.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, God, I hope you're listening that they're safe.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't move. There's more with Sandra Maximine coming up
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  Speaker 1: next the name of the book, Hello Baby. Oh You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna love it. We are back with Sandra Maximine. One
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  Speaker 1: of the things that I giggled about as well in
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  Speaker 1: this book is that I really did envision people who
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  Speaker 1: have pets, their dogs, their cats, even their birds. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to read this book to them, because in our lives,
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  Speaker 1: those fuzzy little babies are really a part of our
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  Speaker 1: family life children as well, they're are babies.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, absolutely, Yes, I have a sixteen year old
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  Speaker 2: for a baby who is, you know, the love of
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  Speaker 2: our lives. We adore her. She's our little stinker.
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  Speaker 1: Aaity you now the mirror. I was shocked when I
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  Speaker 1: saw the mirror and what was what was the inspiration?
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  Speaker 1: Did it start out as the opening of the book
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  Speaker 1: in the wave You're going, okay, so I've got to
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  Speaker 1: build this story. And the mirror is the crescendo. It
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  Speaker 1: is that one moment where the baby or the child
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  Speaker 1: or somebody looks into that mirror and sees themselves in
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  Speaker 1: a much better state because they took the time to
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  Speaker 1: read Hello baby.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly the goal. You know. Throughout the entire book,
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  Speaker 2: the reader is the parent of a grandparents, a sibling, insident.
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  Speaker 2: But the reader is reading we see you, we see you,
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  Speaker 2: we love you, We see you, we love you. And
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  Speaker 2: at the end, the baby seeds himselves yes and realizes
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  Speaker 2: that at who the book is about, and that they
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  Speaker 2: can too love themselves. So it is building absolutely to
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  Speaker 2: being seen and then seeing oneself.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever get the opportunity to go out into
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  Speaker 1: different bookstores or just in different speaking engagements and just
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  Speaker 1: share a conversation and to watch the little readers bring
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  Speaker 1: a book to life, because I mean, it came from
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  Speaker 1: your imagination and all of a sudden somebody is receiving it,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like that is such a beautiful gift from
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  Speaker 1: the universe. When that transition takes place, that's the absolute best.
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  Speaker 2: And I do go out to bookstores and libraries and
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  Speaker 2: books theres around the country. Sometimes I sit on panels
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  Speaker 2: and talk about, you know, the underlying ideas around the book.
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  Speaker 2: But I love most My favorite times are when I'm
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  Speaker 2: sitting on the floor of the bookstore, surrounded in a
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  Speaker 2: little circle where a group of you know, our little readers,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm just playing and reading and we're singing, and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's like really bliss for me. That's where I
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  Speaker 2: really I feel like there are my people with you,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, a lot of ideas come. They share
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  Speaker 2: a lot of ideas with me. You know, things that
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  Speaker 2: they do and what they saw in the book that
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see in the book, and that might give
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  Speaker 2: me another idea for another book. Themes, ideas, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what matters to them in their lives. And that's why
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  Speaker 2: I want to share with them things that are meaningful
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  Speaker 2: to them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and I can't wait until imagine on here in Charlotte,
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  Speaker 1: which is all for the children in the Carolinas, and
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  Speaker 1: because they have daily reading for the kids every single day,
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  Speaker 1: I want to go there when she brings this book
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  Speaker 1: to life, because I want to hear her inflection, her interpretation,
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  Speaker 1: because the way that you use the little nicknames and
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  Speaker 1: everything like that, I know that whoever is reading this
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  Speaker 1: book out loud is going to put in like a
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  Speaker 1: little humor in it. And at the same time, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be very you know, like very warm and
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  Speaker 1: just filled with love.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what I am ad and absolutely because all
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  Speaker 2: the names, you know, there's there's sort of they're funny
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  Speaker 2: and they're implied. And then that's when I have read
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  Speaker 2: it to a group of kids, they're like, that's what
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  Speaker 2: I'm called. I'm a little pumpkin. And I was like, go,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little pumpkins. I'm like, we have two little pumpkins.
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  Speaker 2: So there's like so engaging and fun and very lyrical
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  Speaker 2: and in so many ways. And then at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, they're also the hope and the dream
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  Speaker 2: of the family, and we want them to know that
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  Speaker 2: that they can be anything they want to be. They
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  Speaker 2: can grow to be everything they want to be. And
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  Speaker 2: that's that's how we end the book, right before the
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  Speaker 2: mirror is letting them know, you're a little pumpkin, there's
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  Speaker 2: a little deer, you're a little sinker, You're also the hope,
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  Speaker 2: You're also the dream, and you're also a unique human being.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what I think is the message we most
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  Speaker 2: want to share with our little babies.
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  Speaker 1: It's so funny that you said when you come to
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  Speaker 1: the end of the book, and I know inside my
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  Speaker 1: heart through experience that actually is the continuation for me,
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  Speaker 1: because they're either going to say read it again or
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  Speaker 1: they're going to say, give me another one. So it's
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  Speaker 1: almost like this is such a great firestarter in the
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  Speaker 1: way of getting that young imagination into thinking, I am loved,
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  Speaker 1: I am loved, and just just say it out loud,
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  Speaker 1: I am loved because this book says so.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and there they are. They see themselves in
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  Speaker 2: the mirror being loved, and that's that was the goal.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, where can people go to find out more about Yousandra?
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  Speaker 1: Because I look, I know about you, but I want
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  Speaker 1: people to really know about you. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: become a part of their chapters and decision making when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to great book reading.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you certainly. I have an Instagram and Facebook,
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  Speaker 2: so it's my name, Sandra mag fannin Scholastic has a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful website that talks us about our history and all
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  Speaker 2: the books we've done together over the last twenty five years.
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  Speaker 2: I have a website my name, and the books are
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  Speaker 2: in libraries in your local bookstores, with your neighbors, you know, independents,
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  Speaker 2: you know, any place for books or sold our books
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  Speaker 2: for there. Booksellers have been very supportive creating these standard
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  Speaker 2: maxamine sections of books for children now from all ages
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  Speaker 2: you know, from babies, you know, all the way up
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  Speaker 2: through picture books.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you know you got to come back to this
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  Speaker 1: show any time in the future. The door is always
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  Speaker 1: going to be open for you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I love spending time with you,
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  Speaker 2: and I love speaking with you. You have such great
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  Speaker 2: questions that really matter, and I am grateful for that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: You'd be brilliant today. Okay you do too.
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  Speaker 2: Have a beautiful day.