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I am Mary Catherine Hamm, and I am here today with Bethany Mendel.

Welcome, Bethany.

Welcome, the other half of stolen youth.

Yes. In fact, she's, she is with my co-author. She is with, she is Carol Markowitz's co-author on that

very good book, which is still pertinent, unfortunately, for the country, but good for the book.

Check it out wherever you get good books. How's it going, man?

Thank God.

Thank God.

I can't complain.

How are you?

I'm all right.

You know, I made it through camping with the children, and now we're making it through a week.

You have homeschooling, so it's different.

But May for the enrolled kids is wild.

So I hear this, and it's like May is my relax month where I'm like, I don't know if we're

really doing school anymore.

Let's just stick to the basics and go to the park.

Well, I look forward to going to the park with you and doing other things once we get through

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