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26. There is a rainbow bridge!

 

from the AM101 class starts September 21st


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27. Sometimes it’s Simple or Don’t Be a Hypochondriac

I wrote an article in Dogs Naturally magazine about sometimes what is ailing our animals has a  simple solution.

As animal parents, when our babies don’t feel well or appear to have something wrong, the first reaction is panic. Lots of panic. And if we have experienced loss, there’s often fear of losing are animals that flashes through our minds and hearts.

My animals are just like people and have ongoing little things that their bodies like to express. Just like I have seasonal allergies, so do they. Emma’s chronic ear issues have kept the veterinarian happy. After all, those big floppy ears love to attract all kinds of things. They are soft and comfy. Sarah has to deal with older dog issues. I worry about my parakeets because they are getting older, just like Sarah is. But the parakeets are such a mystery to me, having more knowledge of dogs.

Bun-Bun, (short for Abundance), is my opinionated and talkative girl. She had a problem with her cere when it looked swollen back in June. Imagine my embarrassment when I found out she was simply in breeding season.

Prosperity, (not short for anything), is my social boy. His cere had gotten darker gradually the last few months. He spends most of his day with his face submerged in the food bowl, while Bun-Bun likes talking away sitting by the toys.

As a responsible animal parent, I did the logical thing and did a search on the internet. Bad idea. Being a sensitive and creative person, I am also very imaginative and my feelings can run away from myself. The internet is a great source of info but also can be daunting when you are trying to find symptoms = which disease.

I read a dark beak was a sign of cancer! Oh f%$#! Are you serious? It could also be a hormonal imbalance. Okay, who doesn’t have that?

I am so grateful for animal communication. I mean, I really am. I tuned in to Prosperity and to my Guides for extra information while in a calm, relaxed state. ( I had just had a bath.) What I heard and felt was that it was minor what he had, and “outer layers”  not disease, and that he needed a little bath of water which would help. Oh, and more leaves. They love leaves.

I “kept getting” that he needed to wash off that cere. THAT’S animal communication, my dears. He was telling me all along.

I searched through my shallow, narrow bowls that I could put into their extra cage. Prosperity loved it! And a week later, you know what? His beak is BLUE! It’s not a dark brown. He was healed! Bun-Bun checked out the water, and moved to the other side of the cage. Bun-Bun pretty much doesn’t like anything.

For validation I suppose, that same week I had the problem with Prosperity, I had several animal clients having what looked like serious symptoms that turned out to be simple explanations. Sometimes they are allergic to the new pipe stove fumes, or the new food is irritating, or they just need a bath. :)

And if you can trust your guidance and what you get through animal communication, then you will trust it when it is more serious and you will know what to do.


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28. 10 Great Reasons to Book an Animal Communication Reading

  1. You want to know why your animal keeps doing that weird thing he’s been doing that you don’t quite understand.
  2. You need validation of what you are already “getting” in terms of animal communication.
  3. You want to know what your animal needs and what will make him happy.
  4. You want to know what lesson your animal is teaching you and vice versa.
  5. You’ve been wondering if your animal is your reincarnated uncle.
  6. Your animal is having health-related issues you need help problem-solving.
  7. You sense another animal is coming to you and need validation.
  8. You miss an animal that has crossed over.
  9. You can’t understand why your one dog doesn’t get along with your cat.
  10. You sense your dog has been trying to tell you something by the way he stares at you…often.

Book a reading here. Referrals always appreciated! It’s what keeps my biz going!


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29. Is Your Animal Mirroring You and the Most Important Lesson I teach…

This is a story about how our animals are powerful mirrors for us and take on our stuff, but it is also a story about trust.

I often write about my dog girls and my other animal companions, Speedy the tortoise and Bun-Bun and Prosperity, the parakeets. I love my animal family but I do think that sometimes they are trying to prematurely gray me. I am sure that is not their intent, but rather they are desperately trying to teach me.

Sarah, my elderly beagle mix, has arthritis and some other aging concerns, but is doing amazingly well for a dog her age. Part of that is because she tends to push herself, just like her human mother, and ignores any physical limitations, insisting she is way younger than she is. She jumps up and down off the bed, which incidentally, her current veterinarian looked in amazement at me when I told her this. And sometimes, just like people, she moves or jumps wrong and the whole dog system goes out of whack. This is what happened the other morning.

When I saw her hunched over and limping, I did what most dog parents do, I panicked. Panicking is usually my first option for dogs in distress situations. I tried to tune in and hear her with animal communication and heard “twist, twist” and felt something is out of whack somewhere. I also clearly heard “arnica” for homeopathy but I didn’t have that in the house. Emma was witnessing all this and I heard her say that Sarah would be fine, reassuring me.

I didn’t trust any of this at the time because, after all, I was panicking. I grabbed for the computer. It would have the answers! In my search through doggy symptoms, I managed to increase my panic to a new level, and had clearly decided Sarah had the first signs of cancer, especially since I remembered and was now reliving when our beloved beagle-basset had passed from bone disease in 1998. Clearly, fear was pushing major buttons of loss, illness, and prior trauma. At this point, possibly to counteract my hysteria, Sarah was calm and relaxed and not limping, but sore. I could relax more, but my mind wasn’t cooperating. At dinner, in her excitement for food, she paced more, probably aggravating the injury or whatever was going on in her body when she began to limp again and this time began circling frantically. She does have a balance issue she lives with, so my fears said that her inner ear issue had gotten much, much worse. It wasn’t the back at all!

Thank goodness at this point, guidance swooped in suggesting to check in with my Facebook friends. I love my Facebook friends and my pals in one online group I belong to, so I posted about Sarah’s condition on the group’s page and on my timeline. A big thanks and a hug to my one student/colleague who came along and gave her immediate impressions. Miraculously, she heard the word “twist” and things pulled out of whack, too. She also kept hearing Arnica would be very good for the situation and she also felt the same areas I felt that hurt on Sarah, the back and right side. Confirmation later came again with a fellow animal communicator friend the next day. We were both clearly hearing Sarah, even down to the same words she or guidance was providing.

What was really interesting about Sarah’s back attack was that two days before I had sat too long at the computer in a disjointed way, so when I moved to get up, I pulled my right hip and lower back out. That really hurt and I was desperately trying to stretch out the imbalance by doing yoga moves on the floor and trying to walk it off. Luckily, I felt much better pretty quickly.

A day or two passed after Sarah’s back injury, and she was back to her normal jumping up and down off the bed, back

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30. Reconnecting to Everyday Joy and Miracles this week

Back in 2005, I started Fairy Online School. I was burnt out and tired in my intuitive biz from all the sadness I encountered, and I was going through lots of psychic, expansion changes. I needed support for my sensitivity and quite simply, a little joy to raise my spirits back up. In came that delicious fairy energy, and with it, my love for Nature, and the discovery of my first flower essence I created to heal.

What exactly is fairy energy? I believe we all have it deep down inside. It’s that joyful, playful part we had as children. It’s interested in discovery and gets excited over finding an inch worm on a leaf. It’s grounded in Nature and in our environment and our senses. It’s also that little bit of silly that has you laughing at inappropriate times when you need the humor the most.

This time of year, I always think of my mom, who crossed over in 1995, but is still a pretty active, visiting spirit.  When I was growing up, my mom shared with me the little delights in the world–collecting tiny toys for the holidays; having a hidden stash of candy to dip into; noticing the picture in the clouds; following  that cute, little inch worm on the leaf; and enjoying a good story. It’s the little things we can focus on to bring back the joy into our lives to keep us afloat when everything else in our world is crazy, and boy, life sure has been crazy!

I told my good friend the other day, if this is really end times, I want to go out drawing, snuggling my dogs, eating pizza and cupcakes every day! That’s the fairy way.

Fairy Online School is the marriage between that re-connection we have with the spiritual world that is filled with miracles, awe, and support, and the creating and enjoying with fairy energy as we learn!

I invite you to join us with the many from all over the world reconnecting to miracles, to those we think we lost, to new friends of support this Friday when Fairy Online School starts its new session. Develop your natural, intuitive abilities while having fun, and most importantly, reconnect to you! Head on over to this page to reserve your space in the classes of your choice that start Friday. (Go sign up for my newsletter, Fairy Blessings, and you receive a special fairy discount on classes).


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31. New Class! Spooky cool! Care of the Sensitive Pet

We’re sensitive. Our animals are usually going to be sensitive. In my animal communication practice, I tend to attract and relate to the sensitive animals. In my people practice, I attract the sensitive folks. Like attracts like, right? Our sensitive animals are ones that tend to need the special dog food, may take on our stuff more and be very empathic, and have similar issues being sensitive that we do.

The animals were getting jealous that all these people were taking the Care of the Sensitive class but they didn’t have one of their own to give them tools!

Sign-ups begin this weekend for this fun 3-week mini class for your animal. The class is loaded with stories and fun lessons to help your animal, but most importantly, I share a whole bunch of tools and resources that will make your dog or cat much happier and life much easier being sensitive. Cool, huh?

Sign up this weekend and you get the discounted price but it only last until Monday so rush on over HERE.

Emma Lou gives the class two paws up and your animal companion will too!


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32. We Learn What We Need to Teach and Insects in Dreams

I am finding that whatever I am meant to teach at the time, I will be learning. Sometimes these lessons come gently and easily and other times, a little stronger.

Tonight I am teaching a teleclass on Better Boundaries for Sensitives. This is THE topic that as Empaths we need to tackle. As an empath, I have the ability to merge with an animal or person and retrieve a ton of information. There is deep connection there. It can feel pretty glorious, and give me great compassion and understanding for another. I can also do this with a spirit in the room or even a friend sitting across from me. This is all good. Having this skill makes life deep and rich.

It’s the unmerging that takes a long time to learn and isn’t a  skill we are taught in this world. We need to go back to our own center with separate boundaries.  I’ve been actively busy learning these skills as time goes on.

I visited a friend’s house and farm yesterday. To the outside eye, the place looked peaceful and quiet with animals strolling about. But to me, his place was buzzing with lots of spirits and energies. I was wide open and immediately heard messages. His animals were busy gabbing away at me also. I wasn’t overwhelmed, just very busy during the visit. When I got home though, I had LOTS of visitors and dreamt about all kinds of insects invading my space.

Insects in dreams can be a psychic metaphor for psychic invaders, leftover “other people’s stuff” and empathic cast-offs. Oops. Not a bad thing to connect, but I forgot to close down and clear out. In my dream state I could do that. Kinda like taking my container and emptying it out.

Other indications that you’re invaded by others’ stuff are dreams of intruders in rooms in your house or doors being wide open.

It’s not dangerous being a sensitive or an empath. It’s a gift, but we do need excellent self-care and maintenance which includes some new tools and skills.

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To learn more psychic skills and tools, sign up today for a Fairy Online School class, such as the Care of the Sensitive class, Spirit Communication 1 or Animal Communication 1.


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33. Student Showcase

Thanks to Resi who just finished taking the Animal Mediumship class. Resi is an animator living in Germany who created this amazing homework for the Doubt Monsters section.

copyright 2011 Theresia Winkler

Here’s what she says about the class:

“Thanks to you and your Animal Mediumship class I was able to connect with my deceased dog, which means the world to me. Receiving one lesson each week and having a week to really think about the assignments was exactly the right format for me. The fact that I could concentrate on one thing at a time helped me see things more clearly. You were always very encouraging and your comments, insights and support helped me to trust my intuition more and feel more confident. Each week I read the lessons with great excitement and couldn’t wait to learn more. Your little stories were wonderful and uplifting and your drawings inspiring.  How wonderful to be able to connect with your loved ones who are in spirit! Now my dog visits me frequently and I can’t thank you enough for teaching me how to recognize my own style of communication. I can’t wait to see where this new path will lead me. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts with the rest of us!”
The next Animal Mediumship class starts September 23rd. Sign up and reserve your space now by going to this link.

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34. Read My Article!

Yay! So exciting… I just received my copy of Dogs Naturally magazine with my article, When Your Animal is Ill: The Importance of Listening. It reads great! I really like the magazine and am impressed with the informative articles on homeopathy and other natural ways to heal our dogs. To get your copy and to subscribe go here.


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35. Animals and negatives

It’s Friday, and most Fridays–I’ve been a little lax–are Fairy Online School preview days. The next session is coming up the end of the month, and in June, so now’s the time to sign up.

Today I am featuring the Animal Communication Online Class. This mini-lesson is about Negatives.

Emma Lou, my dog-daughter, helped me with this lesson today. She’s sitting next to me at my desk in the fuzzy armchair. Unfortunately, she is directly in front of my desk drawer where I need to grab a mailing label. I said to her, “Don’t move your head.” I kept saying this in my head. If she moved her head she would bunk it against the open drawer. I thought she was sleeping. Sure enough, she picked her head up, a bit startled, and bunked her head.

Animal communication gone horribly wrong? Sorta.

Animals don’t know negatives. It’s the english language that adds fun things like “no” and “can’t” and “don’t.” What the heck? Emma heard me loudly sending “Move your head.” Startled, she did just that. Poor baby. She’s okay, by the way.

You want your animal not to do something, focus on what you want them to do and send that thought.

It’s like working the secrets of manifesting, so this is a good exercise on focusing on what you want vs. what you don’t want. We are so good at focusing on what we don’t want.

This is a tough one to crack. It takes lots of practice. I still find myself doing the opposite with my animals and I teach this! Arggh. But this was a good reminder, yet painful for my baby.

Intrigued? Want to learn more? Sign up for the Animal Communication class here.


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36. If your animal needs a reading…

Thank you to Lorraine for such kind words…

“WOW, wow, wow! The situation between my dogs Gecko and Bruiser has been a nightmare so I called on Ronni to assist. She ‘talked’ with both in the past few days and suddenly things are MUCH clearer. I can’t recommend this woman highly enough. She described the layout of the house, dog personalities etc, with only the barest of info. Thank you Ronni!” — Lorraine Chittock

Dealing with behavioral issues in our animals isn’t always easy. It’s a lot like doggy and cat therapy, finding out what they need and what you need and then negotiating. But, I always find, that it helps the situation to find out what emotional issues are underneath the behavior and how the animal feels. That’s my job. For a reading with your animal, go here. Ha ha! I write this as  I watch Sarah do a behavior that drives me crazy. I guess that’s a  little like a dentist with bad teeth. :) My dogs keep me real.


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37. Dogbunny Zine exerpt: Gratitude

As many of you know, I love to teach through what I create. Today’s featured excerpt is from the Dogbunny Zine (available here at my Etsy shop), reminders on Abundance and Gratitude.


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38. Reminder! Fairy Online School deadline

This week is the deadline, Friday, for signing up for the Spring session of Fairy Online School. If you are thinking about it, now’s the time to do it. Next session isn’t until summer begins. Great time for study on these rainy, snowy, cold days. You can treat yourself and learn a thing or two to help you and your animals heal and communicate. Now’s the time to really open up to your Guides and inner Guidance for direction. I recommend the Talking to Angels, Guides and Dead People, but I am a little biased.

I will be offering the first of the mini Fairy Detective classes in April if you are interested in Fairy Healing. Details are coming.


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39. Emma Lou’s Anniversary

Actually, it was the 15th, but this week we celebrate when an angel came to our door. Emma Lou will be turn around 5 years old now. I love the idea of doing a tribute while someone is still here. Emma Lou has been truly a godsend in every way. She’s funny, loving, caring, a great cuddler, and very wise. And makes a great model!

In honor of her anniversary, have a virtual cupcake, give lots of pets to your animals and please send her a virtual hug. I am in deep gratitude for my fuzzy friend and dog-ter who has been unwavering support the last 5 years. She is truly God in action and can I only hope to be as good a person as she is.


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40. Fairy Online School excerpt friday

Sign-ups going now for March sessions of Fairy Online School classes. This week’s excerpt:


Healing with silver energy from the Healing with Animals online class. Cool tip and interesting perspective on how our animals heal.


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41. Classes start on Friday!

A reminder that classes for this session start on Fairy Online School Friday. That’s this Friday! Woo-hoo! Now is the time to reserve your space and sign up. The next session may not be until end of March/April. So, if you are itching to learn some really neat stuff in the warm privacy of your own home on these cold, snowy days, now’s the time. Choose from Talking to Angels, Guides and Dead People (so excited about this one), Care of the Sensitive, Fairy Beginner Fairy Secrets class, Animal Mediumship, Animal Healing, and Animal Communication.

Please note, Fairy Joy class sign ups are ongoing, as are Mentorships, which are arranged.

And of course, Readings are ongoing. New ebook almost ready!


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42. What happened to your header? Or a story about ruby slippers and marketing

The Lesson of the Ruby Slippers

If you are regular reader to Ronni’s Psychic Room, you may have noticed many changes in the last few months to my site. No, your eyes aren’t going loopy, you are simply experiencing the effects of a right-brain person trying to do left-brain marketing. (Noticable in the many changes to my blog header).

I’ve been trying to define myself and what I do for marketing purposes, but the more I tried to, the farther I got away from myself and home. The experience has been ultimately, more of the lesson of the ruby slippers. Remember dear Dorothy on a quest?

In my attempts to define and brand myself, for months I labeled myself one who helps the sensitive. Hmmm. I do! I love to teach tools on what has helped me as an empath to survive. But then, I did a few animal communication readings. Need to add that now. Then I did a few mediumship readings. Now what? Enter a marketing coach who said I am more of a psychic communication teacher. But I really like to write about spiritual lessons I’ve learned! More boxes around me. I’ve never liked boxes and I felt more and more limited. Afterall, what I do encompasses much more than that title and obviously, I did different kinds of psychic readings and I love to write about what I’ve learned.

When I had my Fairy Online School only, I was the fairy girl. Folks assumed I only talked to fairies. Another box. No, talking to fairies was PART of what I do as a teacher and an intuitive.

The more I went by marketing models, the more confused I got, and more boxed in I felt. I had to fit into a niche, right? Squeeze into a tight box. Conform to where I was pulled to. It got to the point where someone would ask me what I do and I just mumbled to myself! Now that’s bad marketing.

Then there’s the art and writing thing. So, I’m an artist too, but I thought, when I create my art with words, that’s usually what I’ve learned as an intuitive that I want to share through my art.

The fog finally cleared the other day with lots of help from invisible and visible friends. I found myself saying out loud what and who I am: I’m essentially a teacher. I love teaching what I’ve learned from my work as an intuitive and working with my spiritual companions and animals, whether it was the extensive work I did with the Fairies on healing with Nature, talking to my Guides/Angels about what would help me as an empath, or having more insight on my childhood from my departed Mom, or learning from Emma Lou, my basset hound, teaching me about joy. And, I like to teach others how to do this too. All this I do through writing an online lesson, an article or blog post, giving a workshop, making a Comfort Card, or helping someone one-on-one in a reading.

Marketing doesn’t have to be difficult. It’s really simple. No molding. No trying to be for the market. I had my ruby slippers on all along and had the answer, and therefore, could find my way back home. I just had to be me and find that common thread of what it is I offer and love to do.

So, if you want to learn how to communicate to your spiritual world or need help doing so, or want to learn from what I’ve experienced that might help you or your animals, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to my tribe.

And if you are a holistic healer or an intuitive offering services, or someone who simply does several things, what is your common thread throughout all that you love to do? That’s your definition or ruby slippers–the way back to you.


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43. Animal Reincarnation & Changing Perceptions

Can animals come back as other animals? Well, of course. As always, are perceptions change with our experiences.

Just watched a horrible movie last night, The Fourth Kind. It’s about the bad aliens abducting people. Many of the people in the movie did not believe in aliens or UFOs until they experienced first hand their presence. Bang, zoom, zip, their perception changes of what is possible in the universe.

That’s been my experience as an animal communicator. From day one in my practice, my precious perceptions and beliefs were thrown out the window on everything from animal behavior to reincarnation.

When Emma Lou made her appearance after leaving as Lucy, my belief in reincarnation was reinforced. I’ve talked to countless clients with similar experiences they can’t explain. So when my tortoise went through the dog door the other day, I wondered, who is this guy really? I immediately got the thought he was a dog I knew coming back and he was making that clear. I thought it was coincidence for just Speedy having fun when he went out the door, but when I scolded him, picked him up and put him in the other room, and he still made his way to that door, I knew he was communicating to me.

How cool is that Speedy is a former dog? I could look at it in two ways–either he is here because he loved me so much and wants more, or he’s a teacher and I’m still not “getting it.” I think the first idea will suffice.

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44. New site is up! Fairy and Animal Lovers

My new site is up. I’m sure I will be fiddling with it more and adding stuff the next few weeks, but being the impatient fairy that I am, I couldn’t wait to post it. It has a new uplifting energy to it; I do hope you enjoy it. New fairy online classes start again in May with lots of additions. I’ve added my Fairy Goddess Gowns, In the Garden diary and a few other surprises. Enjoy and have fun! GO HERE.


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45. Dogbunny Zine now has own page

Cool, the zine now has its own page here. Check it out.

zinelook

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46. February Newsletter

If you are interested in my other work--flower essences, psychic stuff, fairy stuff--this is a little note that my February Dogbunny Gazette is now up on that site. Click here to see.

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47. Wheeling and dealing

Ooh, I love the weekly Deal Lunch. And this time there were two pieces of good news:

How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets author Garth Stein's THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, a heart-wrenching but also humorous and uplifting story of the family dog's efforts to hold together a young family in the face of illness, death, and a divisive custody battle, to Jennifer Barth at Harper, at auction, for publication in June 2008, by Jeff Kleinman at Folio Literary Management. Foreign rights are handled by Anna Stein; film rights are with Howard Sanders at UTA.

Thoughts:
A. I loved How Evan Broke His Head.
B. It won a PNBA award. I’ve been nominated, but that’s it.
C. This was the first “adult” book my kid ever read (we were in Europe with a dearth of books in English, and I had just finished it, so I knew there wasn’t too much I thought would be bad for an 11 yo who reads above grade level.
D. Garth Stein, on his website photo at least, appears yummy (you gotta go check this out, girls (and interested guys)!)

Jennie Shortridge's LOVE AND BIOLOGY AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, depicting a woman's struggle to reconcile her best and worst selves as she runs away from home at 40, leaving her (possibly) philandering husband and ungrateful grown daughter to work at an offbeat coffee shop in central Seattle, to Claire Zion at NAL Accent, by Jody Rein at Jody Rein Books (NA).

Thoughts:
A. I first met Jennie when her first book was a year away from publication. I said, “You gotta talk to me, kid,” and we had lunch and I told her everything I wish I had know about publishing before my first book was published.
B. She is very good at self-promo, so I could probably learn from her now.
C. Jennie was almost literally orphaned a few years back when her editor died. (usually that phrase is applied to folks whose editor moves on)
D. Jennie told me that in this book the woman goes on a road trip taking only something that rhymes with “shy dater.” I am too shy to even say THAT!



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