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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #55_HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL_(SHOW #8) · DA CREW Podcast

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M. No one can be trained for my brain and clicks in my brain
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and tensions just libercal then and they get my lack against the wall of my
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dick and the dust my sixty five is so plush, but they nobody get
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trust so imself between the rock and a hard place, and ain't no room
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for no funky Yeah, smile with my feathers. I m's first slime with
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every breath, Dot Jake, I'm gold first with every step up. Welcome
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to the SEC Book gall and French Chat. We're gonna be talking about the
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latest and book reviews, author interviews and life. Come on in and join
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us. We're ready, are you as I take your tad. Hey everyone,
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it's another Saturday night a PM. And you know who it is.
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It's your SEC book gal girl, Patrese Crumble and we have another great author
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interview for you tonight. Well you know what I shouldn't say author, I
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should say authors. I have missus Cheryl Jackson and missus Lewars Wallace and they
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are a new book out called Mirrored Images. Y'all. This is poetry at
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its finest. So yeah, I know poetry month with last month, but
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you know what this right, here, y'all don't want to miss this book.
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So I'm bringing up my guests, Missus Wallace and Missus Jackson. Hey,
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ladies, Hi you potrees. How were you guys today? We're doing
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really good. So first, you know, you gotta tell us about yourselves.
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Okay. Um, we are pretty much a writing duo. I'm the
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older sister by fifteen months. My name is Cheryl, and my younger sister,
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which is Lauris, is been writing with me a lifetime. But we
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just published our first book in twenty nineteen, and we followed it up in
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twenty twenty with the current book that we're talking about today, which is me.
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We're images, okay, and so tell us a little bit about yourself,
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miss miss Wallace. Okay. Um, my name is Lauris Wallace,
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and like Chryls said, I'm the other half of sisters Rock and Rhyme and
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uh, we have been writing a lifetime, but we decided only decided to
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write these books. Well, poetry came later. I originally wanted to be
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the next Spike Lee and you know, write films and all this kind of
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stuff. And it wasn't until I got older when I discovered, you know,
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I think I liked poetry, okay, and no, you know poetry
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and Spike Lee. I could see that coming hand in hand. So I've
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read you said duel. Now I've read books by dual authors. How does
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that work? And oh yeah, I like the fact that Micheryl said she's
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fifteen months older. She made sure we knew that she was fifteen months So
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how I mean, how does that work? It really works well for us
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because we are extensions of each other, and we are two different people,
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but we have the same mind, the same thought process. The way we
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see each other is the way we see the world around us, and we
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love the world around us the way that our parents taught us and reared us
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to love each other. So if you there can never really be a competition
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because there's room here for everyone. I love that. I love that,
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And so writing writing a book together is if that person is the other half
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of yourself and the extension of yourself. You really have maybe different ways of
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saying the same thing, but you really are saying the same thing, so
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it's as if it was just really right. I love that. I love
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that I have two friends of mine that are authors like that in the like
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feed off of each other, and when you read the book, you think
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you're reading one person. And then sometimes I have to look back and like,
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hold up, I know this says r in or lysical from a shopping
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but why does this read like this's just one person? And I love that
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means that that's there, that's your genuine We'll see the thing is, um
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sure we you will be able to tell who's writing what, okay, because
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we may we may uh say the same thing, but we stay it differently.
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That's why we kind of piggyback off of uh each other the person uh
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title of our first book with different size of the same coin. Even though
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we are you know, one, we are different sides of each other.
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And we've always I've always felt like that that that Charlene and I is basically
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the same person. We just looked different. We look different and we talked
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different, like Charles my straight she's the straight man to my comedy. Yet
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you know, yeah, and uh so you believe you mean the writers are
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the readers will see that. You know, they'll be able to tell who's
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writing who. Okay, Yeah, you know I'm gonna look for that when
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I read the book. Yeah, you're I'm gonna seeing you an inbox.
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So this one is you, isn't it. You're gonna get it, Patrie.
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Because Lawrence is so informal. I'm a little bit more rigid and a
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little bit more formal. Okay, Lawrence is this very like Hagarl? Right?
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Okay, it's like like hello man. Yes, Carl is very much.
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She was the English literature major. Oh okay, there goes there.
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It is so, but I was a journalism major, which is crazy,
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um uh, because we don't we didn't have like Charl has always loved to
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read. This is the only time that I know that we really was in
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competition with one another is when she loved to read and I hated reading.
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Because when we were little, for some reason, we did everything together.
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So if charl was reading are you there? God It to me Margaret,
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I was reading are you there? God It to me Margaret. We were
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reading it at the same time. But the thing was she would always finish
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before me, and I hated that. I hate that because she was she's
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like a speed reader. Then yeah, and then she not only can she
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read fast, but she can comprehend and remember what she read. If I
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read fast, I can't tell you what. I just read it, but
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uh so I hated you know, I hated that because she was She's always
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been, you know, better at things than I was anyway. I mean,
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Sheryl was an athlete, she was almost homecoming queen. You know I
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was none of that. But you know I she was my hero. She
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was who I wanted. Yeah, I love the energy. I love y'all
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energy. Want to have a none that mom? Want? I have enough?
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Yeah, I got an eight year old. Let's let's go to the
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next thing to see. So you have a new book out that is called
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Marriage Images. Tell me a little bit about that, Um Patres. That
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is really um a sequel to our first book, which was different size of
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the same coin, different sizes of the same coint was a story very much
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about our family, and uh our mother was really really given certain focus um
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with that first book because we did special things for her in her memory of
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like with Negro Spirituals. Um Negro spirituals are the backdrop and they are the
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song. The Negro Spirituals are peppered throughout the book. So it's kind of
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a week in a nod to Edna May our mother and mirrored images is the
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second half of that story, which we do the same week, and not
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to our beloved patriarch, our father, who passed away during the rage of
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the ravagings of COVID nineteen in March of twenty twenty. We were locked down
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in the house during COVID nineteen with each other, and all we had was
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our journals, writing and TV and so a lot of that. It's a
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sadder I think it's a sadder book because there was so much just sickness.
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And you remember COVID nineteen, social justice and social unrust was happening, and
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you had the killing of George Floyd and so many other black people that took
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center stage. And we were watching TV all the time, Karen, for
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our patriarch who was ill and dying of bone cancer. Prosy cancer were spread
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to his bones. So those writings are beautiful, but they are a lot
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sadder And I love the book though, because we're adults. We are adults,
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mature women of a certain age. We you know, had our children,
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were not these young girls, young women asking these questions. We know
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who we are. All of the questions have been answered, and we are
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writing very much in real time in our adults, mature women voices. And
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that's what I love about mirrored images. Oh y'all kind of here want to
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start. I'm not happy with them to a book to sign and start this
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because first of all, you have my condolences, but the fact that you
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were able to write through your pain, that's just wow. We'll see patry.
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That's the thing. That's the difference. Why I'm telling you'll be able
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to tell the difference because charl and I had different relationships with our with with
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our dad. I would never refer to my dad as my beloved father.
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I mean, you know, my beloved patriarch. You know I love my
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dad, but you know, he and I had a very complicated relationship.
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And uh, you know, Scharl was my dad's favorite. He had four
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children, but Sharl wasn't his favorite. And you know, I was not
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the favorite at all, didn't come close to be in the favorite. And
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so that's why I'm saying, you're gonna be able to tell that it's not
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all sad. Um. The the thing I like about this book is is
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she's right. We're writing about current events that we as we are seeing them
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unfold on our television, hearing it and you know, our sitting room watching
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it on the TV. And like she said, it's more current. And
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the reason why we kept keep saying that it's current is because when we wrote
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Mirrored I'm sorry, Different Sizes of the Same Coin, these poems is a
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collection of poems from when we were young girls trying to figure it out up
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until we actually wrote the book. So if you read Different Sizes the Same
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Coin, it's it's us trying to figure it out, trying to see,
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you know, like why these things are happening to us, you know,
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trying to understand relationships, you know, and trying to understand ourselves right right,
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so that you know, uh, that's what Different Sides of the Same
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Coin is. It is us trying to figure it out, whereas in Mirrored
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Images it's our voices now. And you can tell the difference between the two
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books, so you can tell the maturity of the book. Yeah, exactly
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right. But we're gonna take us a little break and then I'm gonna come
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to find out and said, you know, I'm gonna ask what was the
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most challenging part about writing in verse? Because you know, some people that
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stay away from poetry and it's like, no that's too hard. So y'all
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gonna tell me how y'all master that, We'll be right back. Okay,
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ready to read your new book as I tell you. Hey, so we're
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back everyone with Missus Jackson and Missus Wallace, the authors of a Married Image.
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So my question is a lot of authors stare away from writing inverse or
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writing poetry. What brings poetry to you? Why not write fiction? And
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our science fiction? What made poetry you? Well, it made sense for
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us because we are naturally journalists. Okay, so we have a whole lifetime
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and it is Lawrence just Um kind of relaid our first book, different size
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of the same coin. Were internal entries that went back twenty years of writing.
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I wanted to say, Patrese, my sister is so sweet and she
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always gives me, you know, my price, But I have to emvow
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and take off my hat and give her hers because Laura's is a natural writer.
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I am not a natural writer. I'm a technical writer. And I'm
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a gifted writer because all gifts come from God, so I recognize that part
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of it. But she is natural. And what I mean by that,
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Patrese, is that it comes just you know, she she is a writer's
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writer. She has to have amused, she has to to have be influenced,
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which means she's hell trying to h produce a book with. But because
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the gift is so extensive, you kind of swallow hard because you want that
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writing. You want to be you want to be as interwoven with that writing
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as a second set of clothes, so you you will tolerate all of her
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quirks and her different like writing things. And she has all these clicks,
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and you know she's she's a bit eccentric in that you know, she can't
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produce something on the fly. Like if you told me, okay, Siryl,
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this is your subject matter right a poem, I would be able to
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do it. Lawrence would not be able to do it because she is not
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quick with it like that marmaid. Yes, she has to be inspired.
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She can't fire by So that was the hardest part, But why do we
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write in verse? Verse is very natural to us because it is a very
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very short way of saying what you want to say, sometimes in a rhythm
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or in metaphor, or in you know, whatever, however you want it
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to use. Coded language. Poetry gives you that format where you can say
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it however you want to say it in almost like a short a very very
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short way of saying something. And that's why we love that versus fiction.
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Now, the downside of that is is Lawrence and I were actually writing a
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fictional novel we're gonna release that before we were releasing this third book that we're
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writing, but got too heavy for us. We were too emotionally just you
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know, with the you know, coming off of the COVID nineteen and you
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know, all of this other stuff that's going on in the world, our
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our dad pathway, we had all these other things intersecting at one time.
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So we ended up having to push that book to the side because we kind
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of just didn't want to unpack all of our other issues of losing a parent.
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You know, our family structure shifted, our family dynamics changed, and
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that's too heavy for us. So we wanted to just go dive into dive
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meant to something that could help do the next thing. And poetry is so
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natural for us. We just opted to do here now snapshot of life in
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poetry form. And so that's our third book that it's supposed to be coming
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out, Patrese in the Fall. But because my sister in the Fall,
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right, But because my sister is such a a temperamental writer and she's challenged,
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I have to give her. Oh now, I have to jump in
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here. I'm not a temperamental writer, Patrese. It's the thing. The
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difference between one of the big differences between Cheryl and I when we write is
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that Chryl can say, Okay, today I'm going to sit down and I'm
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gonna write five points, and she will do it. Patrese, I can't
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do that. I have to be inspired. I have to. I call
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it a click. I have to. I have to, you know,
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hear the click, and and and something has to grab me, you know,
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and and and and then I'm able to write. If you know,
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if I'm too distracted, too many different things going on, or you know,
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just nothing is inspiring me, then uh, you know, I can't
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write. And she she right, now I do have some really weird things
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like you know, for me to in order for me to write, I
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have to have a blue pen. It has to be a big blue pen
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with the cap on it. I cannot write without the cap because see the
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pen is not balanced. To me. Then that I was just about to
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ask you guys, what are your odd writing habits? So we just do
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one of them. That's what. I have to have a blue pen and
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it had and and I have to have uh you know. Um, the
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paper has to be right and the pen has to be right. If it's
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not, it just throws me completely off. I can't. I can't.
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Oh wow, yeah, so I got missus Wallace's audwriting habits, Cheryl.
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Do you have any addwriting habits? No? Um, I tend to and
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I she's taught me patience, which is why I love my sister. Because
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she's taught me to just trust her and because she is such a beautiful and
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disciplined and authentic and natural writer. It's worth the weight. It's worth all
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of the hair pulling is that I'm having waiting on her to produce. And
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she, I mean she took me in that literally patrised this woman. She
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would worry ourselves to death. She you know, instead of believing that I
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got it, you know, and you know, I admit that I do
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a lot of crazy things. Like when my sister got married, she wanted
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me to do a point for her and now keeping man, Patrice, we
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had known about this weathering for at least two three years that well, at
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least two years that she was getting married, okay, and she wanted me
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to do this poem. And I was like, oh, I got time.
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I got time. I got time. I looked up. It was
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January. I got tame, I got time. So you know, I'm
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seeing my sister. One day she comes and she comes home to the apartment
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and Patricia has all of these dark circles under her eyes, and she just
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looks so bad. I said, girl, what is wrong? And she's
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like, you know, oh, all this stuff. You know, I'll
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just do all this. And then, oh, by the way, did
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you write the poem? Oh? I said, girl, I got it.
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I got the poem, you know, I said. I didn't write
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it out of something here, girl, It wasn't up here. I hadn't
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had a point. So wait, let me tell do you know when I
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got the point? When I was. I was laying in the bed and
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it was like two days before Cheryl's wedding. But all the time I'm telling
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how I got it. I got it. It was two days before her
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wedding. It was like three o'clock in the morning and bam, I mean
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patrise, it hit me just like that. I got up. I started
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writing. I started writing, and she said, laws you know, she
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was held a little dark circle. I said, yes, girl, I
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told you I had the book and I read the Poor Times. She was
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like, oh, Lauras, that's the most little oh oh yeah, but
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you see that's what I'm saying. I could be laying in bed and then
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hit me like that. I'm like, uh, I get up, like
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believe it or not. Last night it happened to me. It was like
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round two thirty, and I was like, you know, I was thinking
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to myself though, before I went to bed, I said, man,
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I got to get to writing. Lord, you gotta help me, you
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know, get writing, because sure I want to get this book out.
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Came to me like well, I went to sleep and I woke up and
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all of the stuff. I had the first couple of lines like there it
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is, and once I get the first couple of lines, I'm gone.
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So what do you ladies do when you're not writing? I'm an avid reader.
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I love to read tree So I'm either reading, I have something that
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i'm reading, or i am exercising. I'm really into physical fitness. Okay,
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but you know what, I love movies and music. And you know,
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I'm a single mom, so I'm a you know, that's what I
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do with my spare time. I'm a different size of the same coin.
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So so what are you listening to? This? Wallace? If I was
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to bring up your phone and go on YouTube, what would be your girl?
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Oh mind? You would get uh, all of the all the stuff
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from the eighties. I'm an eighties girl, so girl, you would get.
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And I'm a major Stevie Wonder fan, so you would get all of
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Stevie Wonder. You get the gap Us and the fingers Snappers, the gap
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Bad would get Zach, you would get a little bird Sy. You would
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get uh. And then you know, I'm ashamed to say it, but
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we grew up listening to the blues because my dad was a big blues fan.
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I didn't get a you know, I didn't really appreciate the blues.
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I liked it, but I didn't appreciate the blues until I got older.
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And so you're gonna see here a lot of blues on my on my I
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keep telling my sister, I said, girl, you better get with this
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music thing I got on you know, my Amazon music. I got it
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all on them. I'm girl, no butter word right now. Better need
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a big little yes girl. What or you read? If I go on
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your show and I pull out a book, what would that book be?
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Oh? Wow, uh gosh, I have so many right now. I
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just finish. I love romances. So I'm in my little uh romance novel
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uh john um and I am at. My sister loves Jane Austin, So
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I'm gonna read Mansfield part because she keeps talking about Jane Austin and all of
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these were you know, uh, we've been watching the Netflix with Seanda Rhymes
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and the Queen Charlotte Sira on Netflix. So right now I'm gonna jump into
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Jane Man's feel a period romance, Okay, And that's that's That's what I'm
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gonna read that book. That's what That's one of my favorite Jane Austen stories.
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So I read that every year. I try to read that every year
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because I love that that book. I'm right the scene now. I really
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don't read Jane Austin, but I think that I might have to try.
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Yeah, I love it. If you like and Queen Charlotte and all that,
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you're gonna love Jane Austen. All right, so I'm gonna take a
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walk on the wild side and try to But before we leave, tell your
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readers how they can get in contact with you. Um your work that you
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have out, Just share your contact information because I know you guys are want
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to gain some readers. I like the chair stuff, You're want to get
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two readers, So don't how do you get in contact with you guys and
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everything? You guys can follow us Sisters Rock and Ryn Sisters, I yes,
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I S T E R S Rock r O c N rhyme r H
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y m E Sisters Rock and Rhyme everything social media, Facebook, Twitter,
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Instagram, and our website. The Sisters Rock and Rome. Our books are
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everywhere online book so what Burns and Noble? Right, that's how readers can
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find us. I will make sure that that is posted and you guys go
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against and read us. How we say this South, y'all home game,
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and to ready, I want to thank you guys. This has been so
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much fun. We have to get you back. So I'm gonna read the
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book and I'm gonna bring you guys back because we're gonna talk about the book.
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Okay, thank you y'all, both sides of the same coin and married
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images, Missus Cheryl, missus Lyris, y'all, y'all better get on this,
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y'all. Y'all here, so don't want to act like when y'all start
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all right, herban y'all heard it here. Y'all heard it right here,
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and they said they got another book coming out, so you know when that
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come out, I'll be sharing out all as much as I can. And
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thank you guys. You have a wonderful evening. Thank you, thank you,
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thanks, thank you, thank you for having us, thank you for
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having us, thank you so much. Thank you. So you, guys.
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That ends another show for me and beat me back in two weeks where
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I will introduce you to another author, and then the week after that,
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I'm gonna introduce you to somebody from the crew. You never know who my
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next artists might be. So see you, guys, say the enjoy your
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Saturday. Love everyone. Bye. Thank you for joining us tonight. We
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hope you found a new book three or a new author to explore. Join
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us again in two weeks for sec book Gallen and French Chat. Have a
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good evening, Fine