And the I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you and you have 10 things to tell

This show is about connection with each other and with ourselves and the hope is that the things we talk about here will be fuel

for better conversations and a personal awareness.

This is an interactive podcast.

Each episode has a prompt and a topic that I want you to take to your journal,

text to your best friend, or answer on social media using the hashtag 10 things to tell you.

This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our stuff. I'll go first.

Well this episode is really special. Not just because I am very passionate about this topic, but also because I get questions about this all the time, and I have been

meaning to make an episode or a resource or something about this for such a long time and now here we are it's

actually happening I am devoting a lot of time to my very favorite author of all time Mr. Stephen King.

Now what's funny about Stephen King being my favorite author is that maybe you wouldn't expect that from a 40-something-year-old mom of two,

but he has been my favorite writer since I was in elementary school.

I've told this story hundreds of times, I've mentioned it, I wrote about it in my book,

but when I was in the fourth grade, I had a neighbor who lived down the street and I played with her a lot and her mom had a

shelf in their home of a lot of mass market

paperbacks a lot of really popular, some might say pulpy books on a shelf.

And my friend and I would pull them down and look up the naughty scenes.

Fine, we were in the fourth grade.

Like, you know what I mean by naughty.

And we would often pull down these books

that were on her mom's shelf and just read certain parts.

And one of the books that was on that shelf was it by Stephen King.

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