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Music Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood.

I'm your host, Danny Amlavery, and with me in the studio this week is Alyssa Knox, the reader, a femme and a night shift ICU nurse.

She lives in Chicago with her cat Dorothy.

Alyssa, welcome to the show.

Thanks.

Thank you so much for being here.

Also, I realize I just put my oar in a little bit in your bio because it says a queer femme, and I was like, all fems are queer. That's what the word fem means. I will be editing this for like my own little pet project. And it's just like, I can probably relax about that. I mean, it's a good edit. I accept it. Yeah. It's for queer people. That's what it is. It's like

saying you're a queer bear. It's like, it goes without saying. Clearly. Apparently, apparently that's what's on my mind.

I did also just briefly open Twitter and see that somebody shared that Ron Paul apparently delivered

Selena. And it was like, I also didn't know what to

do with that information. And so I just went with that. I really don't know what to do with that

information at all. I mean, it's barely information, right? Like, it's just like a collection of

words that don't have really any intrinsic meaning. But the OBGYN who delivered Selena was Ron Paul.

And I think we should all just take a moment of silence to consider what that might mean for the rest of us.

That's a big question.

Yeah, yeah, that feels like that was enough.

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