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Hello and welcome back to fake me little mood. I'm your host Danny M. Lavery, and with me

in this video this week is Alyssa Knox, the reader, a fam 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 ore in a little bit in your

bio because it's just a queer fam and I was like all fams are queer. That's what the word

fam 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, 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

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