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2023 and I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria and as always before we get

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episode so I had the Right, let's get into this week's episode.

So I had the opportunity to chat

with author and journalist Jennifer Wright.

She recently wrote and published her sixth book.

She really focuses on history.

And her sixth book is called Madam Restel, The Life Death and Resurect. The life, death and resurrection of old New York's most fabulous, fearless and

fearless and infamous abortionist.

So what we're going to be talking about today

is of course this kind of anti-hero

and how it relates to some of the issues that we are facing right now with so many legal

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