Hello, and before we get started today, I just want to let you know that the audiobook for the Sun, The Girl, and Goodbye is coming.

It will be on Audible soon. It is processing now. I do not have an ETA. However, it is available for sale on my Patreon.

It's only $10 as opposed to the audible price, which should be around $20.

The other thing is that before this podcast begins, there's about a 10-minute update on my health

and where I am and everything else.

So if you do want to skip that, skip to about 10 minutes in.

Thank you so much and enjoy the podcast.

And thank you so much for joining us once again.

It is the Nightly Pleasures podcast, and before I continue any further,

just wanted to say thank you so much for your patience, your understanding,

all your kindness and well-wishes and support.

For those of you who don't keep up with the blog

or find that I post too many entries to keep up with everything, the short answer is

my health is simply much, much better than it was before I took this hiatus, and that's greatly

appreciated. The other thing is, I just got overwhelmed.

2017, as I've talked about before, has been just this endless struggle it feels like.

I've jokingly said that 2017 is my 2016.

2016 wasn't that great of year for me either, but this has just felt like a

Sisyphician, I don't know how else to put it.

It's felt like no matter what I've tried to do or how good I've tried to be to myself,

loved one, other strangers, or anything else.

I just haven't been able to make progress.

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