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Hello and welcome back to BigMood, LittleMood. I'm your host, Danny Levery, and with me in the

studio this week is Felicia Reich, a non-fiction comedy writer of personal essays and cultural

commentary who lives in Brooklyn with her collection of books, decorative pillows, and concert posters.

Felicia, welcome to the show. Hi, Danny, thank you so much for having me. It's lovely to see you again.

I'm so glad to be seeing you again, too, and I am curious. Do you have any recommendations for

either good places to get decorative pillows or like how many decorative pillows is too many

if you have a thought on like quantity? So first question, first, a little antique store in

cold spring in upstate New York or the Hudson area. I know people get sensitive about that, so I would

say like beacon, cold spring, you're in good company when it comes to decorative pillows.

Mine in particular is one of a set of four of the many seasons, the muka paintings of fall,

spring, summer, winter, I have fall because I am a November baby. And then in terms of how many

the limit does not exist. So you're telling me you could walk into someone's house and truly

every surface was covered in decorative pillows and you wouldn't for a moment think this is a little

bit too much. I think that they would need to be tasteful. I think that they would need to tell a

story with their pillows and maybe keep some special ones aside for seasons, a particular guest

perhaps. But yeah, otherwise you're fine. I do really like the idea of telling a story with pillows.

And I didn't even know that people got upset about calling something upstate versus the Hudson

area. So thank you now you've saved me from potentially offending and I guess upstateer.

When does up to me, I think if you're out of the city, you're up up the state.

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