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Welcome back, everyone.

The 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries podcast.

This is your host, John Haginorn.

And today I'm going to take a little detour from our usual history

and discuss a subject which is first and foremost with me,

the art of storytelling.

I think each of us has a story to tell.

It might take the form of a book, a short story, a blog, a magazine article,

a script, a life story, a graduation speech, or a corporate morale booster.

Or who knows, even a podcast.

How many times in your life have you said to yourself,

man, I've got the right of book.

Back in 2019, I lucked out and I was granted an interview

with the then new author, Veronica Hinky,

who had just released her new book, The Last Bite on the Titanic,

which was and is a fascinating, well-researched and brilliantly told story

of the last dinner on the Titanic.

She made the lives of hundreds of people from the chefs to the passengers

and the steered, come alive for me, and beyond that,

she painted a touching portrait of the passing of an era.

In researching and writing that book,

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