Hello and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books to get to their hearts from

coast to coast to coast. Yeah! I never say that. It feels funny. It's me, Raylene, and?

Me, Ariel. What is up? Oh, well, happy Thanksgiving, Raylene.

Yes, yeah, that's true. Today is Thanksgiving Day. But we both celebrated yesterday.

Yes. We had our feast yesterday. So that's pretty fun. How did your feast go?

I am so excited to report that it may have been my favorite Thanksgiving ever. Ooh. It was so fun and beautiful. Okay, so first of all, the weather was

perfection. Like we had a perfect fall day. Like not not cold but not warm enough that you couldn't wear a jacket

or a sweater or something which is literally perfect it was sunny and just like all of the leaves

have changed turned they've all. It's just stunning outside.

Secondly, the food was immaculate.

My dad has always made the turkey feast.

And so it's always good.

But it just felt like especially good this time.

But the thing that made it really special was that my brother

who edits the pod you all know cj cj lives with his roommate his best buddy and um yeah they have

another great friend who doesn't live in the same building but but like lives near them. And so they're all like

this little trio, this adorable trio, CJ and his buds. And his buds couldn't go home for Thanksgiving

this year. So they came to my house. And I was saying, I was like, it feels like the most Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving ever, because in movies, like the table's always

crowded. There's always a lot of cars. There's always random people there. There's random people.

I was like, look at these random people in my home. But it was so much fun because I love those

friends with CJ. They're so, so nice.

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