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Hello and welcome to Sunday Chops, Mickey here. I hope you and yours are doing well.

It's Friday morning in my world and very, very much time for a second coffee.

Maybe Biscuit, which on the recommendation of our listener Rachel, I have stopped calling

sadness tablets and instead I'm going to start calling them joy pills. It's time to reclaim

some happiness and biscuits feel like a solid, delicious start. You are about to hear me chatting

with American poet and essayist Molly McCully Brown. Her latest book is Places I've Taken My Body,

a collection of personal essays that covers a lot of ground. In terms of geography, yeah,

she does love to travel, but more in terms of the physical, emotional and mental journeys of

life in all its frustration, pain, limitations, joy, humour and colour, told through Molly's lens

of living with cerebral palsy. I'm going to be honest with you, I am still reeling from it.

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