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I'm Frank. And I'm Crystal. Hi. Library's podcast about books culture and what to read next i'm frank and i'm crystal aka the dumb dumb no i just remember i went there i very not nicely called crystal a dumb dumb before we got on

this uh recording and that's not nice because i couldn't remember but still not

nice yeah because i couldn't remember we also had homework assignments

was i supposed to prepare a passage i don't remember two weeks feels like a year ago

honestly time the guessing game that you failed me at i'm going to ask you at the start of every episode. Well, I forget Frank. No, I can't resist. Crystal was like, I was wondering if I needed to prepare a passage for you to guess before this podcast. And I was like, we read the same book. I know it took you right. It's not a guessing game. Yeah, dumb, dumb, dum.

Dum.

So I apologize, though.

That was not called for.

I'll just say you somewhat dim, hazy-minded person.

It's even terrible.

I'm glad you're laughing.

She's like, it's to age or right after. Only from you, Frank. No one else. No. You can call me a dumb dumb. Because I don't mean it. I'm just, but I do mean my, well, I do. I'm kidding. It was cute. I know you didn't fully mean, did I have to prepare a passage? You were referring to your anxiety about that I handed off to you when you didn't, to my reckoning, fulfill my needs

about guessing a passage from a book. So, you know, when you think about it, what? It was about me and my needs.

And I was disappointed.

And sometimes you get disappointed and you have to move on.

And you don't lash out at the other person because you assume that they were being conscientious as they could be.

And who knows.

And most key, who knows what's going on in their life that might have caused them to so-called disappoint you.

It's not like it's an aggressive act towards the one disappointed.

Not always, right.

But it's also a guessing game to discern that.

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