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Hey, Real Lifers and happy Real Housewives of Salt Lake City premiere day. I truly am excited for this season

and believe it is going to be a gift to us from the reality TV gods, just like this season

of Beverly Hills has been. I cannot wait. Well, this week has been very introspective for many of us. It was the 20th anniversary

of the September 11th attacks. And it also happens to be the days of awe, which are the 10 days

between the beginning of Rosh Hashanah and the end of Yom Kippur. And during this time,

you're supposed to talk to family and friends and people

in your community and ask for forgiveness for anything you may have done wrong throughout the year,

whether you did it intentionally or unintentionally. The practice is called Chuvah, and it's asking for

repentance and for forgiveness, both from others, but also from God.

And I really feel like, I don't know, this world could use a little bit of Chuvah, and so could the

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which filmed their reunion this past week.

I, for one, am really, really curious to see how it all turns out

because I listened to an incredible interview with Crystal Minkoff done by Terria from the

What Else is Going on podcast. And Crystal said that in the coming weeks on the show,

we're going to see a pretty big shift.

And so I'm assuming this has something to do with Erica.

She also said that the finale was filmed in the beginning of February.

And we know that, you know, they're filming the reunion now in September.

And that's a lot of time in between when the finale was filmed and when the reunion now in September. And that's a lot of time in between when the finale was filmed

and when the reunion was filmed. And so I'm thinking that many of these women have started having

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