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Thank you. Hello and welcome back to the Dear Prudence show once again and as always I am your host Dear Prudence, also known as Daniel

Mallory Orberg with me in the studio this week is Dominique Maddie, a writer, editor, and cool mom based in Philly. Her work

centralizes healing from personal and societal trauma.

Dominique, welcome. Thank you so much for having me Danny. I'm excited to be here.

Thank you so much for coming on the show and just so our listeners know, Dominique just spent the last 10 to 15 minutes,

painstakingly calling us back over and over again because we were having some trouble connecting.

So just know that you are getting advice today from

somebody who has moved heaven and earth to hear your problems and tell you how to live your

lives better. You know I'm out here trying. You definitely are and I hope that the rest of the episode is easier than getting it set up was. But either way, I think we're going to have a lot of room to maneuver and I'm looking forward to getting some cool mom perspective because sometimes, I don't know if you knew this, but sometimes I hear from people who do not have cool moms.

And they need to figure out how to live their lives.

There are so many uncool moms in this world.

There are a lot of uncool everybody's.

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