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Hey Lindsay, how's it going?

Hey Michelle, have you been doing any reading lately?

I wish. I used to like read all the time.

Like I get into these cycles where I just like finish one, start the next one. And then I don't know. If I read a book I don't really like that much or if I take more than a few days before getting on to the next book. I just I kind of lose the

momentum and especially with having the baby I have not read anything.

I don't yeah I don't read books as much as I would like to either, but recently I was thinking of maybe going back to read the classics.

The classics that you read in middle school, high school, college, you know, like to kill a mockingbird, great Gatsby, you know like to kill a mockingbird

Oh yeah Gatsby you know books like that like catch 22 I think is one that people read in school

sometimes yeah going back and reading those books would be really interesting with an adult mind, like with my mind at 37, it would be really

different than reading them at 15.

Right, yeah, that's so true.

I think re-reading books is actually a good idea.

Yeah, and like you said, like with many years apart,

it would just bring something special to it.

Something, a different perspective.

For sure, life, you've lived a bit of life.

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