We're deeply silly people everyone. This is going to be a real silly one. I'm excited though.

Me too. I everyone I said Jen no pre we can't talk before we have to record right away.

We can't miss a single second of what we have to say because I have no idea what's going to come out of our mouth.

No, no, it's going to be wild.

Some notes and that's it.

And this is a deep cut.

This is going to be a deep cut.

Like it's sort of, this is, if you don't really know a whole lot about Robams, or like, if you come to us every

week for like a list of books you definitely should read this might not be an episode for you.

You're gonna have a good time though. So do you want to explain Sarah? This is your great idea.

Welcome everyone to Fated Mates.

I'm Sarah McClain.

I read romance novels, and I write them,

and I think a lot about them.

I'm Jennifer Pro Cup, a romance reader,

and editor, and same.

All the time.

I think a lot, Jen, about how my view of the world

is very colored by romance novels. Right? Like there are a lot of things

that happen in the world and I think well that's definitely going to go this one way because I have seen this happen in romance novels many times.

And then I'm always like slightly surprised even on my, you know, fourth decade around the sun sun that like it doesn't always work that way

sometimes things happen that are completely real and like very reasonable and one might say grounded in science and I think that's

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