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Hello, Hello, this is Christina and Carmen and this is
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another episode of a Spooky Tales podcasts for all things
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as Spooky true crime Hunter places myths legends in Latin America,
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but not today. Today is a book club episode. Book Club,
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book Club, book Club. That's right, we are finally recording
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our book club episode for The Bewitching by Syria Garcia.
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And just a reminder about how these work. Some months
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before the episode comes out, we say, hey, we're reading
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this book next. Whoever wants to read with us can,
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and then we send out discussion questions. Whoever wants to
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answer them can, and then we just recamp the book
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and do discussion questions. At the end, there's like a
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brief five minute spoiler free section where we do like
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not even five minutes, but yeah that like two minutes. Yeah,
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so yeah, that's uh, that's how these book club episodes work.
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And uh yeah, hopefully we got some answers from people.
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If not, we didn't, will we'll talk about it. And
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I feel like a lot of people listen to it
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after they read the book. A lot of people, yeah, yeah,
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or some people. Some people listen to it and then
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based on that decide if they want to read the
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book or not. I have done that with other podcasts. No, yeah,
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I get it too. I do that all the time
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where I'm like, do I want to read this book?
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And then I'll listen to a full last spoiler recaps,
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full recap, and then I'm like, yeah, I do want
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to read it. I do the same thing with movies. Yeah, yeah,
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So I love a recap. I love I love a spoiler,
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A recap full of spoilers. We do, we do, that's
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just yeah famously. Yes. Yeah, speaking of spoilers, are you
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ready for a spoiler free synopsis? Yeah? Quick little summary. So,
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the Bewit Chain, by our favorite Yeah, follows three women
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in three different timelines. Alba in nineteen hundreds Mexico, Beatrice
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during the Great Depression in Massachusetts, and me Nedva in
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the nineteen nineties. Who's connected to both women because she
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is Alba's great granddaughter and she attends the same university
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as Beatrice. She is the lynchpin between the timelines. Yes, yeah,
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and then Beatrice is also the focus of Nerva's thesis.
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She's a grad gradically yeah yeah, And all women are
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facing dark forces, dark witchy forces that are possibly connected. Yeah,
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don't don't don't. Yeah, And that is our spoiler free synopsis.
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If you don't want any spoilers, now is the time
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to leave. Yeah, but before we do the recap, did
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you picture anyone any I did? I did? Okay, did
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you cast anyone in the movie of the Bewitching? I
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feel like Alba. I didn't have a specific actress in mind,
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but I was picturing like someone from the you know
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how they have novels that are based on like the
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old times, like something like that's when I pictured. But
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I don't think I pictured anyone specific, did you I
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know exactly what you mean, and I pictured the same Okay, Okay,
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you know what I pictured? You know the you know
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the cover of the Escianda. Oh my gosh, kind of
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like that. No, we're the same, because that's who I
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pictured for Alba's Okay, okay, wow wow twins. Yeah, and
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then if you're for Beatrice, I don't think really, I
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don't really think I pictured anybody actually for Beatrice. But
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do you know I pictured them? Yeah? H Do you
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remember a Night of the Living Dead? Night of the
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Living Dead? No, I mean I remember it, but I
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don't think I remember Okay, Well, there's like a distraught
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white woman in Night of the Living Dead. She's the
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one with her the brother. They go in the beginning
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to the parents' grave. That's where the zombies come out
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of their brother's like they're I get you anyway, her,
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that's who I pictured. Okay, I'm just picturing like someone
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like a like a plane, you know, middle of the
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road white woman from the Midwest. Oh, she's not like
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I wouldn't say plane, but she is. Oh nope, I
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didn't picture someone like that. Really feature someone more, you
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know what. You know how I'm picturing. I mean, I
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don't want to say plain like offensive, but I'm picturing
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kind of like okay, and I don't I know you
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didn't watch Euphoria, but everyone has seen clips here and there,
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and you know, I think her name is Judd or
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Mod No. Jud is a dad Apatow, the director. His
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daughter is a Euphoria mod I believe is her. I
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think her name is mod. I'm picturing her as Beatrice.
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I see it, I see it. Yeah, what about for Ginny?
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Did you picture anyone for Ginny? No? For some reason,
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I'm picturing like a redhead, like maybe someone like, oh,
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what's her name? From The Stranger Things and she's like
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kind of more petty sync. Yeah, yeah, we're on the
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same page. Oh yeah. And then I don't think I
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pictured anyone like in my head specifically, No I was
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someone like bitchy, real bitchy looking for uh. I'm like, yeah,
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the younger version of what's her name that's in like
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Midnight Mass and all the movies. But she was like
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the evil woman in Mass. Okay, yeah, yeah, I know
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who time. Yeah, just so the people listening can know
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Samantha Sloyan. Maybe even Angela from the Office, you know what. Yeah,
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maybe even bitch vibe. Yeah. And then the men, I
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didn't picture anybody, No, same, same, yeah, except for the
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guy that she supposedly ran off with. Oh sometimes. Yeah,
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I pictured bad Bunny, but I think it's because I
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had been listening to that's my number one artist this year.
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That's hilarious. Wow. For all the white men I pictured,
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like asi variation of Jonah Is from Superstar. Oh oh
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my god, what the fuck? This is scary because I
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did too, because he just has like that nineteen thirties face,
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you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, generic white guy
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for Noah Noah. I pictured for Noah like a young
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Leonardo DiCaprio, but like snobby looking, you know, like what
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the hair slips back and put him in a suit.
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So he's not tall enough to be Noah. No, you're right, No,
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you know what? Who would be good? Did you ever
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watch No? Probably not the pit or Er. No, it's
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funny because his name is Noah no Wiley. But here
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let me show you. This is actually pretty spot on.
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Oh yeah, because his character is rich and snobby, but
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he becomes a doctor. He comes from like a rich
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family and he when he becomes a doctor, they don't
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like that. They think he should be continuing the family business.
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Oh okay, while you're looking for that, you know who
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I pictured for. What's his name? The other college douchebag
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in minas Timeline. Oh, the other guy Conrad. Okay, what's
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his name? Glenn? Glenn? Is it Glenn? Oh, Glenn Powell? Yeah,
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but from Screaming Queens. Yes, yes, Chad, I could see that. Yeah,
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so he's not in purple clothes here, but just picture
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him in purple clothes. Okay, I could see that. I
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could see that. Yeah, okay, so we've cast it almost Yeah,
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what about he though, Oh, I actually didn't even think
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about here. I am kind of picturing oh my god,
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what's his name? Just because he seemed kind of like
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funny and chill, you know, love Hard, the guy from
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that movie Love Hard. Yeah, I don't know his name,
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the guy who does the CAF machine Jimmy Yang. Yes, yeah,
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he's a yeah him, yeah, yeah, you know what. Yeah,
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maybe yeah, and more serious, kind of like that serious
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Asian actor who sometimes is a doctor. Really you picture
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someone serious. I kind of did for some reason. Really Okay, well,
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hence who you he was always trying to convince her
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to party. That's why I'm like, he's not serious, you
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know what? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's why I originally
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pictured Oh my god, what's his name? Oh, Daniel day Kim.
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Oh I know you're talking about No, no, no, no,
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maybe version okay, Like you're just like, oh, yeah, I
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haven't seen a young picture of him. That's why I've
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only seen him like, no, no, you're right saying, but
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maybe yeah, okay, okay, now that everyone's cast wait Neva,
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oh my god, okay, you know I pictured specifically sees
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and one of only mergers in the building. Mabel Gomez. Yeah,
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that's why I picture agree. Yeah cool, and then she
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gets like worse, you know, this season goes on instead
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of getting better. So that's why I said specifically season one. Yes, no,
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I concur then yeah cool. All right, Okay, everyone's been cast. Okay,
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And so we have three timelines going on in the book, right,
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and they are alternating, but we're gonna go through one
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storyline at a time, one timeline at a time, because
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it will be confusing to go back and forth. But
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that's how you read the book. I think to just
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recap it, that would be confusing. So yeah, keep that
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in mind as we're recapping, because like, as something happens
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in Nedva's story, it's connected to Betty's story or Beatrice,
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you know what I mean. So and obviously we won't
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have that as we go through the recap. Okay. So
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the story begins in nineteen eighty eight with Minerva remembering
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something that her visa Wila Alba, who she calls Nana
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Alba and will refer to her that way used to say.
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And she used to say, back then, when I was
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a young woman, there were still witches and I just
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love that and I'm sorry. When I read that line,
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I was like, I'm okay. I was always going to
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get this anyway again because it's Cela mon Garcia and
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she is my If she writes it, I'm buying it. Yeah.
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But when I read that line, I was like, I'm convinced.
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If I hadn't already been convinced, if you need a reason, yeah,
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those words would have convinced me. They're like right there,
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like it's like the first line. Yeah. Yeah, then when
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I was young, I could write the witches. Yeah. So yeah.
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She's at at her university, Stone Ridge, taking in the
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fall atmosphere when she hears a cry and she thinks
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it's like a peacock or an owl since the hangout
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on campus. Whatever. It's the end of the semester and
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she's doing her rounds because she is a I think
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they're called resident advisors. She's like one of the supervisors
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of the ras. And besides being an RA, she also
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has a scholarship and she works in the language lab.
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So she's burnt out. She's a burnt out, girly, stressed, depressed.
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She's been forced into like doing all this to try
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and because she's a she's a foreign student, it's from Mexico,
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and so she has to do all these things to
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continue her education. But obviously it's gonna leave to burn out. Yeah. Yeah,
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she's going through it. So because of everything, she feels
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like she's behind on her thesis. And at the same time,
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she's kind of used to juggling a lot of things
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because when she was back in Mexico she used to
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help take care of Nanaba, who lived to be one
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hundred and one one hundred and one. But you know,
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it's like that undiagnosed ADHD situation where you're doing so
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much because you need to be doing so much other
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why is you're depressed, But then you do so much
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that you your body is now it's like a side
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for now. Yeah, yeah, it's And then you lay on
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the couch for like a month, Yes, doing nothing. Yes,
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it's not healthy. I don't recommend not at all sidetrack
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about DHD. You can cut out if you want, but no,
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never I was. I was with our friend Nana the
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other day and we were we had driven to San
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Francisco for in Better with the Rite for their live show.
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And then yeah, and as you should be, and uh,
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we we didn't eat. I think we had eight before,
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both of us separately, so we weren't hungry on the way.
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And then we get there and then she's like, should
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we eat before? But we didn't have enough time whatever,
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and then I was like, oh, no, I'm not. I
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was like I'm not. I was like, I'm barely starting
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to get hungry. And I was like I usually wait
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home starving to eat. And then she's like because she
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she was like no with ADHD, like I took like
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C last year, two years ago, and she's like, yeah,
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that's because your neurodiverg And I was like what, And
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then I was you not heard that word before. No,
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I've heard that word, but I hadn't realized in relations
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to you to eating, to my eating habits, because I
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literally wait until she's like, yeah, you're you're diet, you're
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eating cues or all messed up. And she's like, I
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always bring snacks in me everywhere because if I don't
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want to get hungry, she has snacks. Now you did something,
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it's true, Yeah, well she was prepared. Yeah, yeah, I
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guess she learned that in therapy. Wow, this is a
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tool A tool that she and her toolkit. Yeah yeah,
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I literally wait until i'm starving to I don't know
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any other way to function. I did the same thing too,
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when I have to pee, I feel like it's a
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reward and this doesn't make any sense. So no, not
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you making that fas Okay, I used to feel like
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that more before. Now I really just go pee. But
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I used to be like, Okay, after I finish this sentence,
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I can go. I finished, yes, yes, and that again,
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it's all related to damn in my experience. To add again,
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we're not diagnosing anyone. We're just saying so in your experience,
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I did diagnose me, Minerva and you okay, yeah yeah.
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So anyway, Yeah, she's not doing her round, and she
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stops by one of the residence dorms check their summer
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stay paperwork, and turns out she hates his phone. This
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is Conrad. Conrad and Conrad's are typical annoying douche drowning
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in his privilege, and Mineva thinks that Conrad's annoyingness pushed