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basis until April 26, 2019. Hello and welcome back to Close Reads here in the Close Reads Podcast Network. I'm David Kern and I'm joined by Heidi White and Tim McIntosh. Tim, Heidi. Welcome back. How's it going?

It's going great. Thanks, David. David, there are huge snowflakes outside of my window in Seattle. I think like the third successive podcast, which is crazy.

I was, I saw Jeffrey Overstreet, who's been on Libra Mania a couple of times.

He's a friend of mine, film credit.

He lives in Seattle.

And he posts on his Facebook pictures of the snow there.

I think he just posted something like, what in the world?

Along with it. So this brings up an interesting question, actually.

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