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Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Book Club Podcast.

I'm Mrs Heather Olson-Vill. I'm really excited to be here tonight with Nicole Hardy, the

author of Confessions of a Latter-day Version, and several of my favorite people in the world

who all allow to introduce themselves here. Well, let's just do it right now. So Nicole, say hi to

everybody. Hi everyone. Thank you so much for having me as your special guest,

Thomas Podcast. I'm excited. Great. Claire, you want to just give a little shout out?

Sure. My name is Claire Eden. I'm Heather and I are old friends and I've always wanted to be on one

of her book group podcast. Thank you for inviting me. You've always wanted to be on one of my book club

podcast. Always. It's going to be really actually hard for me to do this conversation with you guys.

Okay. It's good. Awesome. Thank you, Claire. And we have Claire's daughter, Marin.

Hi. My name's Marin. I'm Claire's daughter. I was born woman, but now I'm not because we stopped.

Okay. I don't know. I think the book's really interesting. So I'm glad to be here.

Okay. Great. Unless it not least, Mel.

Oh, hey, I'm Mel Selco and I got introduced to Nicole in the book at a local book festival and I fell in love immediately.

Oh, thanks. The feeling is mutual. Cool. So I was driving a lot yesterday, kind of across a big chunk of Texas and thinking about this.

And I remembered that the first time I had heard of Nicole Hardy was when your New York Times Modern Love Peace came out.

And I knew that I had talked about it in an internet forum where I met Mel and Claire.

And so I went this morning and I looked it up to figure out when that was and just to see kind of what.

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