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Although David Kozlowski is a licensed marriage and family therapist,

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Hey, everybody. Welcome to Light the Fight. You know that if I'm the one giving the introduction and trying to think of like something clever or some little like song or rap or something, you know that David's not here. And so David's not feeling well. And so he entrusted me to just kind of carry on. And so I'm happy to do just that, which means that I don't

have to vet any of my thoughts. And I can just jump in with, well, I mean, usually it's, usually our topics are

kind of spurred from interactions that I've had throughout the week or things that crop up in my

DMs or am going through myself or with friends or whatever.

And actually tonight is no different.

I just don't get Dave to weigh in as much.

But there is an account.

So I just kind of wanted to share, take a minute and share,

um, an account that I follow on social media that I, um, I really appreciate. And I want to share

it because, um, I think she's really kind of found this spot. And probably if you

guys listen to this podcast, you might even follow this account. And I don't, I don't know

her personally. But the account is Brooke Romney writes, all one word. So Brooke, B-R-O-O-O-K-E, R-O-M-N-E-Y, and then writes,

W-R-R-I-T-E-S. Now, I don't know that much about Brooke, and I have followed her for a long time.

And so I actually don't even know her story. So I'm not even to try to tell you what I've

kind of gleaned. But what she does have a book. And I think that kind of how she,

okay, I shouldn't talk about how I think that she came upon this, but the book and in her

account kind of addresses like, almost like manners, almost like advice. She has four boys,

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