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Welcome back to the Almost Famous Podcast.

It's Ben here today, and I get to chat with a fan favorite in Bachelor Nation.

We got to know him from Katie Thurston's season and season eight of Bachelor in Paradise.

He's got an incredible new children's book out called Where the Wild Heart Grows.

That has a very important and I think relatable message.

So let's get into it.

Michael A.

Welcome back.

Hey, thanks for having me on, buddy.

It's nice to see you.

All right. So, you know, we just celebrated Father's Day, which is a great weekend to not only

celebrate the fathers in our lives, but also the fathers around us. As a single dad,

and so much of this conversation, Michael, is going to be around kind of the past,

moving into them, the present. I know you're in a relationship and you've been in a relationship

for a while, and it looks happy and healthy and full of joy and all the good things.

Right. But in relation to this book, obviously, the past is, you know, revisited, which it

should be and remembered.

Sure.

But as a single dad now, does Father's Day feel different to you?

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