Well, hopefully we, I mean, we do have two people. Hopefully we will have more than that.

Well, I thought about that. I was like, thank you so much for your support. I'm like, I don't know if they're going to support us or not.

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Hey, Tina. Hi, Renee. How are you? I am doing great. I have been Googling up a storm on this topic and my books and their backstories.

Same. It's so fun. I Google anyway, no matter what, even if it's, I know it's inspired by true events, if I have no idea. I'm like, wait, did this happen?

Like, even if there's like a subtle mention, I'm like, well, now I have to know if this like

small town in Iowa is a real town. I don't know why. Oh, you do. I never like actively went and looked at the books that I

finished unless there's something really glaring that makes me wonder. But now I think I'm going to

have to check every book because I had no idea there were so many inspired by true stories.

So many. And I feel like a lot of time

they're in historical, like in my brain, I thought, oh, it's going to be a lot of historical

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