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Hey Catherine, huge thank you for coming on.

Sure, sure, I hope this works.

Yeah, you are.

Your audio is excellent, it's very...

I can listen to it, it's great, yes.

Yay.

Can you tell the viewers a little bit about your background and how you got to this point in your life

whereby you're writing books?

Sure, definitely.

Yes, and I'm here in my mellow living room, not my office that has all that FBI paraphernalia in it.

So I actually am a product of Detroit, Michigan.

I was raised up in the Midwest and in Upper Midwest in the States.

You know, it's very mellow up there.

Everybody's super nice to each other.

So I worked as a journalist, a news journalist for a little while, print, and then moved into Chicago

and found out that most of the lawyers who I was dealing with as a journalist were lying to me.

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