Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we are speaking with my good friend Deborah Castellano.

Deb is a fiction writer, blogger, Witch, Weaver, and author of Glammer Magic,

which, if you're listening to the show on podcast Thursday, was released

yesterday.

She hails from and lives in New Jersey, one of my very favorite states, and I don't care who knows it.

Deborah, welcome aboard.

Happy to be here.

All right, well, I know some of the content

in the traditional first question.

So Deb, for you, this will be past fail but were you a weird kid?

I told my mom that that's your your first question and she laughed.

Shout out to a friend.

Yeah, I was kind of a suburban bird funeral having kind of kid.

Bird funeral, Billin?

You know, you'd find dead birds in your yard,

and then of course you'd have to have a full funeral with

all your neighborhood friends for them and so sort of like a very toned down

rasp utina song.

Nice, nice.

Is that, I mean, I find that interesting given some of the stuff we'll get on to a bit later,

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