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The minisode.

We read you, the stories that you send us.

And I keep air drying my hair.

So what you're hearing now, it sounds so smooth and silky, but what you're seeing.

We're a mess.

But this is the chill episode.

I feel like this is the easy, like, light lift episode. Is this the clean girl makeup episode? No, I mean, like hometowns. Just feel like... Do we have to be so perfect all the time? Not like in the regular episodes where we're fucking... Where it's on it. Snatched. Cirling it. This is a nice, concise one to kick it off. Okay.

The subject line is classic hometown and badass grandpa.

And it says, it just goes right into it.

My grandpa, Ray, was and always will be a total badass and my hero.

Ray.

Boom.

I could write stories for days, but my favorite was the time that he casually told me he spent

part of his childhood

alongside an infamous killer. Grandpa grew up in the holler of Brush Mountain in Blacksburg,

Virginia, where I was born and raised. He once told me about a boy who lived up the same road,

in quotes, a different fella, he said, who had a glass eye. The boy's mama was a sex worker and his daddy, I bet that's

not how his grandpa said it. He did not use those words. The boy's mama was a sex worker and his daddy

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