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Hello and welcome back to the Big Moody Little Moody show. I'm your host Danny Lavery,

and with me in a studio this week is Bonnie Gupta, a speech-language pathologist in Sydney,

Australia. It's 7 a.m. where she is. I just want you to know her dedication to helping people with

their problems is significantly higher than mine, because if I had had to get up at 7 a.m. to help

people at any point throughout having this job, I would have helped no people. So there it is.

She has a master's in creative writing. She's now doing a research degree looking at how children

talk about their own experiences, finding those dogs, and books, and giving unsolicited advice,

which is actually going to hold you back today, because all of this advice is very much solicited.

But I hope it's not too limiting a factor. Thanks Danny. Well, it is going to be a change,

because I often don't have to give solicited advice. Well, I hope that there's not too much

different. I suppose the biggest difference is you can allow yourself to go on a little bit longer,

because you've, you know, you've got an excuse to do so. That's right. Well,

going along is not a problem for me either. I love to give advice. I love to repeat myself,

and hopefully it'll be helpful to the letter writers today. Yeah, I hope so too. I'm interested

in today's episode, especially because there's a fair amount of, some of them are updates.

One of them has a sort of significant resonance with a recent episode that I do want to mention

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