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Hello everyone. I'm sure you're very surprised to be hearing from me today,

especially with content that has absolutely, and I can sure you're very surprised to be hearing for me today, especially with content

that has absolutely, and I can promise you this, nothing to do with the US election because

I am recording this intro on Monday and I recorded the episode you're about to listen to last

week. So if you have election fatigue, regardless of how that old thing turned

out, be, yeah, nice to know that there's none of that happening here. I'm bringing you this

special off-season sentimental garbage simply because this was an opportunity that was too good

to pass up. If you've listened to the podcast closely over the summer,

you might remember that several times, and also on social media, and also on my Goodreads account,

how much I loved Taffy Bredessa Ackner, her second novel, Long Island Compromise. Now, Taffy is already a very, very famous journalist,

and a very famous novelist for Flashman is in trouble, and very famous for having adapted

herself and won an Emmy for it. She's a huge hero of mine, and I just adore her work. But I

couldn't stop talking about Long Island compromise this summer and

eventually I couldn't stop talking about it so much and I was so frustrated that like I

wasn't seeing my love for the book reflected in the world then I ended up putting

Taffy's publishers on blast in the last episode of Continental Garbage. I shouldn't have done that.

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