Hey everyone, I'm beyond excited to start a new series this week sponsored by my book.

It's a Love Story. It's out on April 30th, but available for pre-order now.

And if you do pre-order, you're going to get tons of fun bonuses that no one else receives.

Check out the link in the show notes on how to order.

And there's another link if you want to join my lunch team.

Now, this Love Story series is all about romantic movies.

I invited a few of my friends to help me dissect some of our favorite rom-coms and the

conversations were eye-opening, especially by my mother.

For example, in this episode, Stephanie and I discuss Twilight.

I heard that.

Some of you rolled your eyes right now, didn't you?

I get it.

You wonder how we could put Kristen Stewart's Bella in the same realm as future rom-com charmers on this podcast like Sandra Bullock or Meg Ryan or Julia Roberts.

I'll tell you what I told Stephanie when I made her talk about this movie.

It was a love story phenomenon.

You cannot deny that.

Listen to this synopsis.

High school student Bella Swan, always a bit of a misfit,

doesn't expect life to change much when she moves from

sunny Arizona to rainy Washington State. Then she meets Edward Cullen, a handsome but

mysterious teen whose eyes seem to peer directly into her soul. That's good. Edward is a vampire whose family does not drink blood, and Bella far from

being frightened, like an idiot, enters into a dangerous romance with her immortal soulmate. Come on, no matter what

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