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slash inquiring minds. So this is a weekend that for some people can be a little bit tough.

It's the big Valentine's Day. My wife is actually away. So I'm solo for the first time

in a number of Valentine's Days. Oh, see, I just helped my husband out. I ordered my favorite tulips for

myself. So, I'm charged it to them. So, yeah, it's great Valentine's Day for me. But I know a lot of

my friends either love or hate this day, right? And so I've been looking forward to this episode

for months because back in the fall, I was pitched by a

publicist for a major publishing house about this book. And I basically said to her, I'm sorry,

but this needs to wait until Valentine's Day. What is this book about? I have been sitting on

this book for months and it's called sex in the sea. Like there's

many fish out there in the sea, the probabilistic nature of us finding love? Like basically, there's a lot of

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