You're listening to Heaving Buzhams, the podcast where two best friends recap romance novels,

while wondering about power dynamics and loving all of these messy bitches.

Go to love what we love, do what I love.

Stack our shells with the crunchies out, love it's all right.

I'm so glad you're back for part two.

Okay, quick piece of business.

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Jesse L., Joanna O., Lauren C., Sebastian I, CatW, and Gene K. All right, when we left off yesterday,

Anne had just watched band practice for the first time, and then directly afterward, Mal was a big,

dumb dummy and got a little too snugly with an old friend in front of everyone.

So Ev and the other girls are packing Anne up to do some comfort drinking, you know, like you do

when you're 23. That's where we're jumping in for the second half of play by Kylie Scott. Love it out of love.

Love it out. And she is like, oh my God, this is it.

Like, he ended the farce, intentional or not, because he's now mad.

And, like, they part on not great terms.

And then that she has girl time with her buddies.

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