Yesterday afternoon, I noticed a single Amazon shipping box on my front porch. Thinking little of it, I brought it inside to open.

I order from Amazon often enough that I rarely know what a given box might contain. When this one revealed its contents, I sucked in a breath so quickly I nearly choked on my own saliva. I had placed the order only two days ago and hadn’t expected it to arrive so quickly.

𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸, 𝙉𝙀𝙍𝙑𝙀.

I picked one up and felt the heft of it in my hand. I flipped through the pages, ran my finger across the spine. It was definitely a book.

With that realization came a mildly nauseating mix of joy, pride, gratitude, imposter syndrome, and fear of failure.

There are only a few essential tasks left to wrap up, and by the end of June, I will release my baby into the wild.

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