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Indeed.com slash SPANUK. Terms and conditions apply. This is Pessimists Archive. I'm Jason Fiper.

I don't know what you're going to think of me after I tell you this, but,

ha, it's time to come clean.

I have done something that has been accused of harming children's minds and making women go infertile.

I have done something that, in the words of an 1877 edition of the Montreal Daily Witness,

quote, cannot fail to injure, debase, and destroy, end quote. I have done something that

as described in the 1790 book memoirs of the Bloomsgrove family have, quote, poisoned the mind and

corrupted the morals of many a promising youth and prevented others from improving their

minds and useful knowledge, end quote. I am guilty, folks, guilty of it all.

And I have a co-conspirator.

Meet my wife, Jen Miller.

I had no idea the kind of damage we were doing when we began.

Neither did I, Jen.

I know it's scary, but do you want to admit what we've done?

I suppose we must.

We wrote a novel.

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