January Jones Sharing Why Texting Doesn't Work! & "A Twist of Lemon" by Arlene Hemingway

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Radio. Who is January Jones.
She is not a young, beautiful,

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talented actress on Madman. She is
not an older, gorgeous exotic dancer from

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The Johnny Carson Show. She is
an author and she wrote Thou Show Not

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Why the Eleventh Commandment that rates number
one at Amazon dot com. She is

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a reality TV golf personality with World
High Stakes Golf televised on hd Net.

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She is a humans and Why knowlogist
expert. She is your featured host today

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on January Jones sharing success stories.
So sit back, relax, and get

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ready to laugh and listen to Ms
Jones with her eclectic roster of guests.

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As you learn life's lessons. These
stories plus sharing equal success. Welcome and

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remember beware because you are entering the
no whining world of January Jones. Good

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day everyone, I hope you're having
a fabulous day. I'm January Jones,

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and i'd like to welcome you to
our podcast today. As you can see,

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I'm wearing my glitter hat and I
have my glitter cane. I'm getting

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ready to start promoting glitter Granny Gifts
that's going to be at Amazon. I'll

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be selling everything that glitter and glows
with my associate, my little puppy,

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ginger Ale, who'll be helping me
sell. We'll be launching the website later

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this month, and I'll tell you
more about it as it gets closer.

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Right now, I'm so happy to
have you here with us today, but

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let me ask you a question.
Tell me how do you feel about texting?

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Oh? Yeah, yeah? What
are your thoughts? Good or bad?

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Tell me does it drive you crazy
when people do texting while you're eating

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with them at table, especially if
your husband does it. Do your kids

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and your grandkids only respond to text
Oh yeah, I've been through that,

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and I can tell you if I
want to get a hold of anyone in

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this family. Don't bother calling them
because if you text, I'll get back

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to you within five minutes guarantee.
Now let me ask you, have you

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ever heard of an incredible called book
called A Twist of Lemon one hundred curious

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stories in exactly one hundred words.
Well, I just got to finish reading

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this book, and believe you,
I could not. I cannot put it

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down. It was great. If
you can answer yes or maybe to any

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of these questions, then you are
in the right place. And I'd like

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to welcome you to January Jones sharing
senior success stories. So now it's time

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to rest, relapse. Go,
get yourself some cheese, get some crackers,

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and welcome to the no Wine Zone. Now let me tell you a

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little bit about my guest today.
You know, teens and pre teens are

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like Olympic athletes when it comes to
texting with both thumbs and well. Texting

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is a great way to communicate and
nothing beats, but nothing beats printing or

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old fashioned cursive handwriting for building self
confidence, reduced stress, improving your vocale

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vocabulary, memory, and much much
more. According to a former teacher who

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is my guest today, she is
the author of a Twist of Lemon,

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one hundred curious stories in exactly one
hundred words. It's my pleasure to welcome

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to the show today, Arlene Hemingway. Good afternoon, January. Oh wow,

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I've been so looking forward to having
you on the podcast. As I

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shared it earlier, I read your
book. I could not put it down

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and it was intriguing, fascinating and
to me too. I immediately tried to

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write something in one hundred words and
guess what. It's hard, Isn't it

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as it is? It is,
but it's well be worthy effort. It's

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the challenge, but you feel so
good when you accomplish it. It's amazing.

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Oh yeah, Well, let's start
with where your success story began and

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how you became, where you were
born and who your early mentors were.

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What was your early life like?
Well, I was born in New York

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City, and because I was born
in a city that has a reputation,

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when you say New York, it
conjures up a lot of things, especially

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Times Square and a lot of you
mentioned Sparkle. You expect a lot of

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things that go on to New York
and what I wound up in North in

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Long Island, New York. But
I went to school in New York and

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most of my my upbringing into adultthood
was in New York City and going to

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school I went to. I was
always interested in music loose. My mother

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used to sing, and she had
taken singing lessons. She was a classical

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singer and she loved opera, and
then she moved into the gospel gendre,

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but she loved that. So I
was always surrounded by records of singers and

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classical music as deposed to other kinds
of music that was there. So that's

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where my love of music started,
with classical music. That I take piano

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lessons until I reached the age I
guess it was when you're eighteen, you

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know long I have to take them
something of that nature, and then you're

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on your own. But but the
time you've taken piano lessons, from the

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time your single digit age to get
to that point, it's kind of ingrained

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in you. And it was something. So I wind up by going to

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a school music and art high school. Even starting there, I'd gone to

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a private school before, and they
did a lot of plays in the private

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school, and I always had a
featured role of some kind and then an

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art high school, and then onto
where I graduated from the Juilliard School of

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Music. So my whole life has
been stacked with music. From the beginning

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to becoming a professional musician, I
seem to be called should we say to

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well, your resume is quite impressive. First of all, starting with the

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name Hemingway, Yeah, I'm so
jealous for anyone who's ever written. Can

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you imagine having that last name and
a book to a publisher. But I'm

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also curious how you well, how
you did the transition from playing the piano

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to becoming an incredible master organ player. How did that come about? Who

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taught you to do that? When
I was going to school, even in

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elementary school, my mother would take
me every year to the Christmas show at

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Rockefeller Plaza where they had a great
where it's the organ, and I became

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fascinated watching the pant leg of the
man at the organ, and I kept

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saying that, but I just stare
at that, and I became an animate

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or that. And sooner or later, after taking piano for so many years,

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I decided I wanted to take organ. So I did. I started

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taking organ. I guess a few
years before entering Julia. In fact,

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I during my summer vacations from high
school, I would go and practice the

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organ in two different places. That
was my summer. Go to this place

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and practice for a couple of hours, go to that place, and my

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teachers for some reason didn't show up
for my lessons. Okay, i'll teach

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you, but I very organ lessons
before deciding I wanted to go to Juilliard.

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So my application I didn't say that
I had a lot of lessons.

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I said I had lessons, but
I was basically self taught when I took

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the pit the entrance exam, and
then it was no need to say if

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I'm in the school, you've accepted
me, so I guess. But I

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really was so thrilled at playing that, and I called it the Queen of

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Instruments. So I would practiced in
the summer like four or five hours a

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day, you know, go to
one place and practice the two and a

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half hours so and go to the
other organ and practice the two and then

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walk home. So all of this
went into my training and thinking, and

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I was so excited and delighted.
Of course, when they accepted me into

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Juilliard. I took three entrance exams. I really didn't care how I got

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into Juilliard. Wow, piano and
organ, And I got in on organ

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and that was fine with me.
So was fulfilled, and then I was

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really on my way with the training
and then leaving there and going to a

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different life of being a professional musician. Okay, well we're gonna take a

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break. And if you know someone
who whines, this is a book for

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all the time? So was January
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Whine, The Eleventh Commandment that reached
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Jones based the book on our survey
of the top ten things that people whine

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about at all ages and all stages
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that can tell you how to help
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for any occasion. Thou shall Not
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given anonymously for those special people in
your life. Miss Jones is an internationally

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known author in the style of Irma
Bomback, specializing in housewife humer with her

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book being published in Korea and China. You can find Thou Shall Not Wine

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at Amazon dot com. Welcome back
with my guest Arlene Hemingway today. She's

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the author of A Twist of Lemon, which is why Arlene, I wore

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a lemon colored hat in honor.
Thank you. Yes, I fell in

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a lemony mood. One with us. What happens after you graduate from prestigious

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Julliard as an organ master? What
kind of a career? What did you

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do then? How did you support
yourself? Oh? I supported myself by

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being a seven day a week musician, because that's all I did. The

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name of Julia does carry some cloud
to it, so that does open the

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door, and that's very helpful.
But when you have Julia in the back

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of it, people are more apt
to say, hmm, So I wanted

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something that I could did not have
to work every single day if I did

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not want to. But I wound
up because you're involved with the organ when

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you are do have the organize your
major. So what I was a classroom

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music teacher for the five days a
week, but that means getting concerts ready

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and having a chorus and all kinds
of things that were involved and it all.

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Then I wound up having a church
which I normally did that's Sunday,

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and I had a synagogue on Saturday. So I really ranm and of different

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kinds of services which were fascinating.
So my day was seven days a week.

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I got up before fifteen every morning
and meditated for fifteen or twenty minutes

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in the day and didn't end most
of my days until ten thirty or so

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at night, except in the weekend. Was there were a couple of days

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there that I allowed myself. I
didn't have to stay up till ten thirty,

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but if some event came, it
was there. So that was that

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was my only respite. But seven
days a week. So this had to

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be very disciplined with the regard to
my life, and I had to make

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sure I didn't pick up the wrong
music bag because I had won for sacred

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music and I had won for not
of sacred music, and I wanted if

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I did funeral work, which i'd
done before, that was then a special

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kind of category. So it was
like, where am I going right back?

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Good and off I would So as
a music teacher, what age group

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did you teach? And how long
did you do it? Did you enjoy

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that from K through ninth grade?
And that was part of the rug because

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no other teacher had that kind of
responsibility. It was hired to be an

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elementary school teacher about three or four
years and they said, now you're going

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to teach junior high school. Well, if you've been teaching elementary for so

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long, you have to kind of
bone up and get back, not just

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saying come into school. This is
uni assignment. And that's the way some

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of the discord started, which led
me an event to getting up at the

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four fifteen morning time slot to find
answers of how to solve some of the

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problems that it was having, which
a lot evolved around discrimination frankly, and

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so this we did a problem,
and I had to work around that so

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that I didn't lose a job and
that I didn't lose my sanity. So

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between working on the two of them, this is where the writing came in,

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because I literally called out from my
house one day, thanks for getting

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so bogged down at work, and
more and more is be added onto my

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schedule. Wait a minute, you
hired me to do this. Now I'm

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staying in extra forty an hour after
school to do this, and I have

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to come early because I'm a special
music teacher and have the course. There's

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no stopping this. You're just adding
more. I never had a risk,

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but I didn't eat lunch with other
teachers because they scheduled me so that I

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could travel to another school to take
care of another class from another teacher.

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And so it was a matter of
I need help. And when that occurred,

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this is where the writing came in, because I was given the directive,

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well, thou shalt get up in
the morning, and now she'll sit

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at a table, and now shall
have a pen and a pencil, and

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thou shall So these things literally started
coming through when I just couldn't bear the

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pressure any morning, and I said
help, and I stay with my candle

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every morning, and then the writing
and the information started coming. Okay,

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that's so, you know, often
put yourself out at the end of the

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universe. Those things you know before
we talk about that I want you to

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share with our listeners your website information
and how they can get your book.

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Well, my book is on Amazon
or at their local bookstore, which they

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can get it there too, But
my information can be gotten an info at

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Arlene Dwayne Heming because I use the
entire name, and if they that,

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they will find that if they go
to their Google wherever, they'll be able

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to tap into that information. Thank
you for asking. Oh, for sure,

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that's what we're here. And actually, once I start Glitter Granny Gifts,

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your book is going to be one
of the books. Thank you.

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I'm so delighted, thank you so
much be featured on my bookshelf there.

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I'm so grateful, thank you.
I only feature books that I've written or

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books that have been written by people
who have been guests on my show,

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and frankly, most of those books
I've been fortunate enough to be able to

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read, and so I look forward
to sharing those with our listeners at they'll

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be able to get those at the
website soon. Looking back on you mentioned

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something about discrimination. Looking back on
your music and teach teaching career, what

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was the best thing about it and
then what was what was the downside.

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The best thing about it was that
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self centering things was, no matter
what happened to me with regard to how

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I felt about my employers, the
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of that, and nothing then could
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myself that I could manage and not
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teaching situation. So this is where
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while, believe it or not,
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fifteen in the morning and it just
was this was a great way to jump

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start my day, and then I
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I did all of that in the
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rehearsals later in the evening, There's
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to do this at ten o'clock ten
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wide range, shall we say,
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and you have to be extremely disciplined
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best things was that that voice answered
me, which led to my starting to

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write a diary because there was that
directive I vow shelter or you know,

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if I said, no, matter
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and it's going to shine with me
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book and the statements became longer and
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started writing stories. I took a
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of the courses I took, they
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yeah, will talking about writing.
Fifty years ago, I wrote a book

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about Jacqueline Kennedy. S Fifty years
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Kennedy? Yeah, let me ask
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who killed Kennedy? Over fifty years
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her book Jackie, Ari and jack
The tragic love triangle connecting Jackie and Aristotalonasses

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romantically prior to JFK's assassination. Did
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the White House during the JFK funeral. He was the only non family member

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who was invited by Jackie to stay
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of the wealthiest men in the world, with the means, the motive,

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and the money to order an assassination
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century. Are needed class and Jackie
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other. Now what is canlot?
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Jackie, Ari and jack is available
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com and audiobooks dot com. Read
by mis Jones. Welcome back with our

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guests. I r anyway, and
she is going to share with us her

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experience with writing drabbles. That's d
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And how did you come up with
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didn't come up with it. It
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in the class where I learned about
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learned this was an assignment. Everyone
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poetry or most of them wrote short
stories. I used to write things that

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were like five hundred we'll say two
about a thousand words, And when we

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all looked at each other and said
what is that, she said, well,

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that's your next assignment, that's all
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one hundred words stories. So the
rest I kind of looked up on my

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own to find out what was going
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many people, I thought it was
going to be easy. If you're writing

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five hundred and two thousand words,
one hundred words doesn't seem like very much.

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But surprise, it was the hard
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because you discover you've written too much. You've repeated that. It's not seeing

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a news show one after the other, where they emphasized the same important thing

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of the day, breaking news.
It breaks. If you watch ten programs,

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it breaks on each program. It's
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I've seen that, I've seen that, and this is what happened.

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So I discovered that being concise is
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sense was what got me through my
job situation because eventually I didn't write fiction.

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As a travel is I could literally
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a higher up and not get them
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they had given me so much trouble. They wanted me to leave. That's

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what they wanted me to do discrimination
And it didn't work because I would come

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in and say, okay, we
have a I've come to you many times

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before, so I didn't have to
repeat what I'd sent them in messages.

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And now the thing that I spoke
about has come to pass. Like having

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thirty three children in a class and
you're supposed to have thirty teacher. I

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said, I can't do that.
That's not what's in the contract to be

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breaking. Well, just go ahead, because if I had taught thirty three,

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they would then expect me to teach
thirty three, no matter how many

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you broke the rule before, So
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I refused, and they didn't like
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what are we going to do about
it? And they just sat back and

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looked at me. That's all she's
saying. And every time January there was

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a solution to one of the problems
that I'd spoken about. So that made

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them angry too, because she's not
getting angry and she really knows what she's

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talking about. So my probably got
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my mind, but in a concise
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when I spoke to them. Okay, well, you know it's interesting.

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I started reading the book for the
other night. Then I took it with

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me to read, and I usually
read in bed before all asleep. I

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read your book, and I was
intrigued with it. Then I fell asleep,

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and then in the middle of the
night I woke up and I found

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myself here at my computer and I
was attempting to write something in one hundred

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words. Yeah, oh my gosh. It's not easy. I can attest

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to that, but when you actually
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yeah, so my husband's here to
listen to you. Yeah. Yeah,

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And I didn't. I didn't write
fiction. I wrote a dravel about some

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of my personal life experience and it
was intriguing and very difficult to do,

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you know. I recently worked on
a memoir that my children have asked us

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together, and I looked at the
dravel and then I looked at my story

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worth memoir, and I thought,
why didn't I take each chapter and just

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make it a hundred words. That
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because even though of travel is it
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form. I call the non fiction
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So that's something I didn't name.
One of the things that dravel is

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good for us getting your memoirs together, because so many people in this timeframe

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are either keeper of the history of
their family line. They want to do

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that before before their great grandparents and
so forth leave the planet, and they

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then want to get snippets of what's
happened, and you can do that so

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easily by using the dravel form.
Take one thing, write it on a

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card. I suggest this is a
date on it. You don't even have

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to put it in chronological order,
because if you say events around my birthday

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party when I was fifteen, well
you'll know the date. And you remember

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that story that someone spilled ice cream
on the cat. Someone gave you a

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football, and you hate football and
your boy you're more into soccer or something.

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So all of these things sink.
That's one of the many things that

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using the dravel form can help you
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Yeah, now is what does travel? Where did it come from? It's

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not an acronym, is it?
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the nineteen eighties there was a practice
and this comes something that was started in

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a sense like the Big Read Book
and that was something affiliated with Monty Python

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and that group. So you can
see some of the humor and stuff just

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just thinking about that consortium. Well, they were in England and at that

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time it seems that a popular game
because it's in a game of books,

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in a book of games, what
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at someone's house. Maybe in these
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it used to be people would be
saying, okay, now everyone's going to

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write a draft, write a write
a novel. And I can't imagine that

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people coming to someone's house today and
say we want to write a novel.

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If probably looked at you as if
you were crazy. But that and there

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seemed to be no you don't know
what the time limit was. The first

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person to finish was the winner.
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matter, and you knows how long
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court for a couple of days and
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that work? But the Framing Him
Institute of Science Fiction discover that this was

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really a good form to keep and
to propagate. So they created the rooms

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that shalt not make it more than
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so even today they set the rules
and then rather than just being a novel

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could go on and was set in
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science fiction. It's one hundred words, no more, no less. One

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hundred words, not one hundred one, not ninety nine. And so I

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used to have travel contests and things
if people were saying great things. But

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to be ninety eight words, you
lose. It's not one hundred words and

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one words. You need to count
your words. So it's disciplined. You

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know, when I was working on
it, I was getting when I was

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getting to about eighty ninety words,
I was in my mind thinking, well,

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I've got to wrap this up quickly, and they start to panic.

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And then what a satisfaction when I
did the word count and it came in

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exactly at one hundred ooh great.
Who knew it? You know, that's

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great. I'm glad that you were
using the form the dravel autlly to write

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other things besides fiction, because it
is so helpful. By the way,

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you said that you had read a
lot of them. What is your favorite

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dravel Do you have a favorite?
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the ones that kind of been trigued
me were the dravels that were like

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one or two three pages, so
it'd be okay, right, you'd finish

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that, and then you'd get another
person's perspective. Those intrigued me, so

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that made you could actually as anyone. Well, I know you put all

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your dravels in a book. Have
other people followed this genre? No,

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there, it has been that some
people have looked at it, even some

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famousis in science fiction writers, but
they're so confined with one hundred words they

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can't say everything they need to do, and then they would have to acknowledge

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that one hundred word. For also, in a drabble, you cannot use

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the redundancy that you see in other
stories, because in one hundred words,

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you're going to remember you use the
name. For example, January loved her

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sparkles and her Western outfits. And
then January got on her horse and met

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her husband, and then January went
to dinner. Well, we know the

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main character is January, but if
you repeat it four times in one hundred

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worth length, it kind of wears
on you that redundancy. So you know

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who the main character is. You
described yes, and she wore her hat,

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So you're still describing who the main
character is without using the name over

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and over and over again. You're
doing the attributes of the character, and

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that makes it much more interesting to
do. So when you look at the

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work when you finished, if you've
repeated the name and the same situation using

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the same exact words, then something
needs to be amended. It's not as

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exciting. So I'm aware of that
when I write it. I said that

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I need to repeat that it's important. But I can't say that the same

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framework I did, because the read
is going to be bored and say,

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Okay, you just repeated that three
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from Juilliard. And let's talk a little

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bit about your incredible music career and
now you're writing career. How how are

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they similar and how are they differently? Well, music is something that touches

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the emotions, whether it's silent or
not. And with music, you do

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not have to have created the work
itself to perform it in a wonderful fashion.

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You can do something that's extremely moving. For example, since I was

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an organist and I love Bach.
If you're an organist, there's no way

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you can resist Bach or get around
him. If you're a classical organist.

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And I remember that I had the
advantage of playing since I played every single

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week in a church or a tempo, and I had a usual experiences to

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happen when I played the organ.
Many people, in fact, the churches

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that I played for the congregation did
not get up and leave with the first

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sound of the organ. At the
end, that seems to be the end.

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The pastor says the benediction. Everyone
says, great, it's Sunday.

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We were leaving. Now we're going
to go and go to the ball field

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and we're going to start the cookout. My audiences sat down and listened,

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which was very, very odd.
They wanted to hear every note I played,

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and I figured, what is going
The first time it happened, it

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just seemed very strange, But that
happened every time I played. The people

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in church did not leave. They
stayed until I finished the leat, and

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I related that when I was going
to school, these people are not going

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and they just figured, oh,
you're just being self service. But that's

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not it. There was something that
I did that communicated in writing you it's

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the other way around. In a
sense, you have written something that people

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are responding to. It's not that
they've written and they're responding and they then

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are seeing situations that they might not
have thought of the answer to. But

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you may be supplying. Because since
my book is called a Twist of Lemon,

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and at each instance it doesn't end
the way it starts, it's like,

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how did she get from point A
to point being one hundred words?

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So it's like, wait a minute, what happened? And many will go

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back and read the story again,
Did I see that right? And they'll

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say, yes, she said that. So it's the kind of thing that

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you can use as a meditation of
how people say the way you said.

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You can take it and read it
with your coffee. Someone has told me

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that that's exactly what she has done. She reads a story today and that

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just kind of sets today. And
many people that have ah huh. Moments

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they're having a friend who's going through
a crisis. It's not always easy to

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tell a friend something that you think
about what's going on. They didn't ask

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you, and you don't want to
be someone who prieses. But you might

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say, I'm just sort a story
about this, and it may if that

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person reads it, they may come
to a conclusion to their problem or situation

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they never thought of before. But
they've just read a hundred words. It

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really hasn't taxed them like oh oh. It leads them onto a whole trajectory

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where they may not feel set upon. They may then be a little bit

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empowered to do something different to answer
the problem in their life. So that's

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the different thing they both deal with. The emotions. The first one can

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lead you to cry. If someone
is playing something beautifully and I have some

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people come back weeping literally you play
there so beautifully, my heart, thank

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you very much. No one is
pride for story, but that they have

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said, Wow, it gave me
such something to really think about. It

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was so different. Also, the
fact that you mentioned you woke up and

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you could go to sleep and read
a story. You didn't have to stay

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up to read a half a novel
or pages to get to the end of

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the chapter, so you could get
to work. So there are lots of

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advantages and many cross connections of that
kind, but both creative. Both requires

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some thought involved, whether you're emoting
something this way or doing it from the

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heart with your pencil and paper,
which is an important use, rather than

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using a texting device or your thumbs. Okay, now that's my next question.

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We started up disgusting texting, texting
versus writing, the pros and cons.

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Now, would you share your thoughts
on the subject for us. Yes.

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In fact, I heard today from
someone who said, you know what,

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I discovered that the art of communication
disappears when you're involved with your thumbs.

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That is kind of mindless. And
there are shortcuts. When you were

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texting, you're not thinking in terms
of sentences. There are shortcut language.

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It's yes, it's no, or
it's symbols that you're using. So it's

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mindless. You're not paying attention.
It's the And you said your children if

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you text them, they're back to
you in five minutes. That yeah,

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they bypasses the reading. It's just
like okay, quick, now I can

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get back to what I'm doing.
But when you're actually writing, you are

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coming from the idea that is sparked
by something you see. And I am

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inspired by something that I see,
something that I hear, something that a

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conversation, for example, that was
not meant to me originally. Two people

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are talking so loudly, I can't
concentrate on something over here. They're sitting

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next to each other, but they're
broadcasting it so that I can hear it.

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And I've discovered that is for me
to listen. I might be getting

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some information for a story that way. And I always carry something to right

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in my purse. I always carry
a pad. I can't get a pencil

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there because the point sometimes breaks when
it's in the purse. I do have

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to use a pen but at all
other times I use only and this is

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to create my stories only legal pads
and pencils. There's a reason for that,

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a very important reason. It comes
to the head, like, oh,

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look at that, Look at that
beautiful bird. You're stopped in your

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tracks. Texting doesn't stop you in
your tracks. Momentarily, you stop to

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what you're doing. You're observing,
you're watching, you're paying attention, you're

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listening, and the next thing is
it goes through Gee, that was beautiful.

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It's affected you at the heart level. You had some kind of reaction

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to it in addition just seeing that
or hearing it originally. And the third

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part of that is writing with a
pencil. A pencil has graphite, and

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the graphite scratches across the page.
And when that does it, it's like

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creativity is coming through your creative channel, like the creative birth canal. When

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you're scratching, all of a sudden, you're taking ownership of your thoughts.

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And even some yeah, there are
even some writers. Ernest Hemingway use they

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say, a pencil. He would
use other things as well, but Maya

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Anschelit, I believe also used a
pencil. Some of these people people started

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their creative flow and then moved on
to other things and sort of late it

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winds up on the computer. But
that's like the functions because you can feel

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it. Your creativity and sensitivity is
coming through that graphite, and many people

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feel that. You just know you're
sparking that inspiration. So that's the way

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I've used it, that's the way
it was taught to do it from that

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inner channel, and it is it's
amazing it's amazing. Did you two part

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question, did you write when you
were young? And how old were where

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you were when you published this book? This was the book was published in

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twenty twenty. So I used to
when I was a child, I was

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told about at the age I guess
it's six or seven, that I would

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now have to start writing thank you
notes to all people who gave me gifts.

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Oh okay, so I realized it
started, and Ashley that time,

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you're writing by hand, and my
mother would look it over and say,

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good job, and then they would
be mailed to everyone. So did Aunt

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Harriet thank you for the pajamas love, whatever it was. I'm just using

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that as an example. A little
bit later on in life, when I

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was about twelve, my mother said, okay, now you're going to be

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in charge of the checkbook. And
I said, wait a minute, I'm

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only this old. That's good job. And that's one of the best things

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that could have happened, because at
that age responsibility of knowing where the funding

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and how money is being spent.
I literally had to write the checks.

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Now my mother signed the checks,
sure, no, so she could check

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the date and how much it was
and the name. But I had to

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write the checks. Yes, so
that was right. So that's your writing

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and thinking of what you're doing later
on with that calling at the table.

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Then it's started with stories. So
I always I always look back and see

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these these signs from age six writing
thank you notes? How many children write

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thank you notes? Now all my
grandchildren do they do they write a full

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thing or do they just said Granny, thank you for the so and so.

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They've started to write actual little letters. And it's only because writing using

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my hand, God is amazing.
They're not texting, that is fabulous.

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I think it's because they know they
want to get more gifts and I think

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you the best way to do that. Now, when we're saying thank you,

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I have to thank you for being
with us and share your amazing story.

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Thank you everyone for going into the
no wine zone with us. And

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remember you need to stop whining,
start smiling, and then if that doesn't

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work, then you can start eating
chocolate. Thank you darling, I mean

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way signing off from the glitter Granny, take care and stay safe until we

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meet again. We want to thank
you for listening to January Jones sharing success

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stories. Always remember miss Jones' personal
mantra, if you can think it,

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you can do it. That's what
all of our guests have done with their

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lives, and so can you.
You are the ultimate success coach in your

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own life. All you need to
do will be to start sharing your own

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story with your family and friends.
We hope that our guest stories will encourage

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you to explore an equation in your
future that will combine your creativity plus connecting

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with others will enable you to be
successful too. Always remembered, your passion

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plus your purpose will equal prosperity.
As you explore the wonderful world of January

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Jones became at back to the paper