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Team Carrion.

If Let Me was just as important as Let Them, then that should have been added to the title. But Let Them panders to our inate -and unhelpful- need to feel superior so way better marketing, I guess?

Me right now: Just keep reading, just keep reading...

Daddy King?

Oh that was not the answer I thought it was going to be.

Speaking of stupidly long time, this meet-cute is.

... why does this voice actor sound like Mufasa? 🤣

No way. The poor guy.

Wow. That whole segment was a stress inducing read.

Loneliness, uncertainty and boredom

"We got rid of the day as well as we could. Some days you just got to get rid of as best as you can." Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Whatever the nature of your work there is an art to what you do and there are people who would be interested in that art if only you present it to them in the right way."

Cody.

Carrion is the hero of this story.

... I'm invested in Carrion's health.

I had a totemic stash of chocolate at work for the longest time lol

Come again? "One in four gastric bypass surgery recipients develops a new problem with alcoholic addiction." ..."When food is no longer an option, many switch from food to another drug, like alcohol." Makes sense if recipients didn't receive behavioral and psychological help, I guess, but that's still seems like a high statistic.

Fascinating. I'm wondering if this is where I'm at with my reading in that it's not enough just to read a book for its content, I need an external factor to feel as if I'm achieving something by reading and completing a book too, hence the Top 100 list and reading recs I wouldn't normally pick up myself.

I feel seen.

It better not be Ephraim.