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Laura Hanken is back on the podcast to discuss one star romance, which by the way is a

book of the month club pick.

Laura Henkin is also the author of Happy and You Know It, which she was on the podcast for

for the very first time, this is right before COVID, a special place for women and the daydreams.

Her musical comedy has been featured in publications like The New York Times and the Washington

Post, and she is developing projects for film and TV. She lives in Washington, D.C., or she once fell off a treadmill twice in one day. Oh gosh, I fell off a stepmill. We didn't even talk about that. Welcome, Laura. Thanks so much for coming back on moms don't have time to read books to discuss one-star romance. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me back.

Listeners, you can't see this, but we're basically wearing the same exact sweater, but in a

different color. And we look really funny with our books behind us and our brown hair and our

sweaters and like, you know, like, we're talking about writers and all the stuff. So it's pretty

awesome. Yes.

Anyway, twins.

I was just saying before we started how much I'm loving this book. It's so smart and funny, which is no surprise because I've read your other books and this is just what you do.

But this is hitting more close to home because of all the writing stuff and all of that.

Although the mom playgroup thing was also hitting close to home, I think you'll just and all of that. Although the mom playgroup thing

was also hitting close to home. I think you'll just have to, you're just like going to follow my

life. I'll tell you what I'm doing like in five years or something. I was going to say,

am I just like lurking behind every corner writing down the thoughts that are going through your brain?

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