You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarks World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you well.

I just wanted to let you guys know that looking at our recent Patreon goals

we are so close to meeting our next goal. We're talking under a couple hundred

dollars here.

So if you haven't gone to Patreon.com forward slash Clark'sworld,

it's just like buying a cup of coffee,

but only if you needed caffeine just once a month and especially if you weren't buying it at

Starbucks because dang that's some expensive coffee but you can start at a dollar or more a month. Just a dollar.

And if you already are a Patreon subscriber, thank you so much.

Every dollar goes to help grow this magazine even further.

So funny anecdote, in my last podcast I said,

sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

And I say that in every podcast, but I got an email from a listener who was in the middle of a gym routine. So yeah, if you're in the middle of a gym routine.

So yeah, if you're in the middle of a gym routine, it might be a little bit hard to sit back

and relax.

But I hope that each and every month you can let me tell you a story no matter what you're doing. I just

hope you don't fall asleep during them while driving or operating heavy

machinery.

So our fourth story for the month of March 2017, issue 126, is titled, Crown of Thorns, and is by Octavia Cade.

Octavia has a PhD in science communication

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