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All right, so our first hour and 15 minutes or so, we talked with Jenner Reese just about

her life, and this is kind of the second segment.

So welcome back listeners.

And now we are going to dive into what I consider to be a delightful book.

We introduced it to be of the show.

It's called Flunking Statehood, a year of breaking the Sabbath, forgetting to pray,

and still loving my neighbor by Jenner Reese.

And Jenner, I'm just going to be honest with you, I read your book on a flight to and from

Washington, DC.

And after like two hours of reading your book, I got this incredible urge to call you just

to say I love you.

That's all I wanted to say is just for Reese, I love you.

People picked me up at the airport so I was unable to do that, but that's how I felt

about your book, frankly, and I want to dive into it.

So what introduction do you want to give about the book before I start peppering you with

questions?

Well, I guess, first of all, I want to say that's very amazing to hear and it has been

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