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Oh hello, lovelies! Hi, it's me Kate. Hi, this is my podcast I suppose.

And today is a very exciting day. Today my new memoir releases into the world, which means that

you beautiful people will finally get a chance to read it. It's called No Care for Being Human,

and other truths I need to hear. And you can find it wherever books are sold in hardback or ebook,

or as an audiobook read by me, where you can hear me lightly crying and then laugh again my own jokes

privately, and then being a little embarrassed that I find myself sort of funny sometimes.

We all wish we could boil our life down to these kinds of simple formulas,

easy to grab mantras that tell us how to live, things like you only live once, or what doesn't kill

you makes you stronger, or just think positively. I guess I'll just have to make lemonade out of all

those lemons I've been given. But what about when you realize life isn't a series of choices?

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