Hey, Ian here. I wanted to tell you about a place that I love, and it's a place where a lot of the work that goes into 13 happens. I do a lot of the work for the show at Lexington Riders Room. If you're a parent, you know it can be tough to carve out some space to work on something creative at home that requires a certain amount of solitude, like writing. Even if your kids are in the other room, you still feel

like you should be spending time with them. The writer's room is a place where I and a lot of other

great writers can go to work on whatever it is we're working on. It's a dedicated 24-hour space,

and it's one of the main reasons that 13 has survived into my parenthood. The writer's room is at a turning point and needs to do some serious fundraising to maintain

the next three years of our lease. So I'm coming to you to ask you to consider donating,

or if you're local, consider joining. You'll be helping the show, as well as a ton of other

talented people who are chasing their dreams

but who just need a little space to do the work you can look for a link to the donate page

in the show notes of our most recent episode or you can go there now at lexington writersroom

dot com nope you can go there now at lex writersritersroom.com forward slash support hyphen us.

That's Lex spelled L-E-X Ridersroom.com forward slash support hyphen us.

Hey there. Thank you for joining us for this episode of 13.

Before we get started, as always, we want to thank our new patrons.

Angela Vashkovich, Reformed Colonel Reb, Maria Alvarado, Hannah Bishop, Stephanie C., Acalia,

Lou King, and Kristen Geeter. Thank you so much for your support. And welcome to the pod fam.

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This is part two of a two-part series.

If you haven't listened to part one, you should probably go back and do that now.

We'll wait.

And without further ado, today's story is Maine, part two, written by Madeline Daniel,

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