You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarksville citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

We're on to our seventh story, for the month of March 2022, issue 186.

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Our story is titled, it takes a village and is by Priya Shand, Priya Shand, who can

be found at the website PriyaShandRights.wordpress.com, is a California transplant living in the Midwest.

Her work is inspired by a background in biology, has previously appeared in magazines including

the magazine of fantasy and science fiction, analog SF and nature futures.

She is also nonfiction editor for issue 7 of Reckoning magazine.

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to optimizing the path to enlightenment

and social Darwinism here at Clarksworld.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax and let me tell you a story.

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