Jennifer Love Hewitt, INHERITING MAGIC: My Journey Through Grief, Joy, Celebration, and Making Every Day Magical
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[0:38]Thanks for listening. Jennifer Love Hewitt is the author of Inheriting Magic, my journey through grief, joy, celebration, and making everyday magical.
[0:50]This title is now available for pre-order. So pre-order your copy now, it comes out in December, but we want you all to get it early while you're thinking of it, and while you're enjoying this episode,
[1:02]Jennifer will be at Zibi's Bookshop FYI doing an event. So check out that event calendar, and if you're in the neighborhood, you can come meet her in person.
[1:10]We had the most fun conversation we laughed so much as you'll see, even though it started with grief, but of course grief often leads to laughter because how else do we get through?
[1:19]And of course, her approach to celebration. Anyway, here's her bio. Jennifer Love Hewitt is a story to actress, singer, director, and author.
[1:27]She can currently be seen co-starring on the Fox Show 911, created by Ryan Murphy, and Brad Falchuk. Most recently, she can be seen starring, directing, and executive producing holiday junkie for lifetime, inspired by Hewitt's personal relationship with the holiday and the loss of her mother.
[1:42]She starred in executive-produced and directed several episodes of the Hit Network series, Ghost Whisper, which ran for five seasons.
[1:49]Her additional television credits include the hit drama Party of Five, I think I watched every single episode, and it's spin-off time of your life, a starring role in the hit drama Criminal Minds, which she joined for the series' tenth season, the Hallmark Hall of Fame telefilm, The Lost Valentine, Opposite Betty White, and a recurring role on the comedy series Hot in Cleveland.
[2:08]Hewitt starred in and executive-produced the hit cable film The Client List, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an actress,
[2:16]and a miniseries or motion picture made for television. The success of the film led to a weekly series of the same name, in which Hewitt starred and served both as executive producer and episodic director for two seasons.
[2:28]In the next screen, Hewitt is known for her role as Julie James, and I know what she did last summer franchise. She also starred opposite Sigourney Weaver and the romantic comedy Heartbreakers, and alongside Jackie Chan and the action comedy The Tuxedo.
[2:41]Her additional feature credits include If Only, Can't Hardly Wait, The Huntback of Notre Dame, to Sister Act 2, Garfield, and its sequel, Garfield A Tale of Two Kitties.
[2:51]In addition to her acting-producing and directing credits, Hewitt is a singer and songwriter. Her most recent studio album, Bear Naked, became her first album to chart in the United States on the Billboard 200 chart.
[3:02]Hewitt's debut novel, The Day I Shot Cupid, was released in 2010 with a book becoming a New York Times bestseller, The Week of Its Release.
[3:09]Enjoy.
[3:10]Welcome, Jennifer. Thank you so much for coming. On Moms, don't have time to read books. I'm so excited to talk to you.
[3:16]I'm excited to talk to you. Thanks for having me. So tell listeners all about your book.
[3:22]So it's called Inheriting Magic. It is a love story to my mom and sort of my journey through grief and then finding out. I think my first thought when my mom passed was that all the magic I had known in my life was gone.
[3:38]She was the most magical human. And then I slowly realized in becoming a mom that I had inherited what she was doing the whole time was giving me that magic to sort of have when she was gone.
[3:49]And so that's why that's the book title. And then it's just sort of about my magical family and people will feel like they know me a little bit better when they're done reading it.
[3:58]And it's just something for my kids to have one day when I'm not here.
[4:04]Well, I definitely feel like I know you a lot better. I mean, I didn't even know you.
[4:08]But even finding out like you take us through all of your finding out about each kid and the pregnancy tests and the surprise.
[4:15]And all of that is like I can relate to that. I can relate to that.
[4:21]You're a book that starts out on a very sad note when you are separated. You're on your way to Monaco and your mother has been battling cancer, but she's in a good place and then suddenly takes a turn.
[4:34]And you have that feeling, which is of course the worst feeling in the world where someone something is happening to somebody you love and you cannot get there.
[4:40]That's like when I didn't have that every night and it happened to you. And so of course there's such complicated feelings about all of it. Tell me more about that time if you don't mind and just that feeling. Oh my gosh.
[4:52]Yeah. So my mom and I we lived across the street from each other. We would have breakfast together most mornings dinner at night when I was around and could do that.
[5:00]And we were just she was a part of my everyday life. And when she was diagnosed with cancer, I was very much like the initial time was shocking.
[5:11]And I think, you know, obviously she took the diagnosis the hardest because it was happening to her. And I think I sort of went into.
[5:17]Okay, what do we do? How do we fix it? How do we kind of get through this together as a family and so I didn't really sit in it very long.
[5:26]I was sort of her cheerleader and her champion the whole time. And we really did think that we were on the other side of it and that day before I left we were kind of planning this big like cancer my mom loved to party and we were like, you know, planning this party and it was going to be beautiful.
[5:42]I left for the trip with like this very weird feeling in my stomach and I always trust my gut and I did that day. I really didn't want to go on the trip.
[5:50]But she couldn't go and she loved to travel and so she was very much like, please do this for me. And when you get back we'll go back to planning the party and it was supposed to very quick like three days, four days.
[6:01]So I let go of that feeling I got on the plane and then by the time I landed there were all these like messages and I was still very unclear as to like what had happened in that period of time.
[6:12]And then I went to a hotel.
[6:15]They were like, there's no flights out tonight and I'm like, how do I even possibly sit here.
[6:21]No, and I never got to talk to her again. Like that was the thing. Like she was not she was not conscious was not in a place where she could talk to me. So I was like, wait, I'm not talking to my person and I'm getting any information.
[6:32]My brother was already traveling. So I couldn't really talk to him. I was talking to my sister. I was wonderful at the time, but it was just very, it was very surreal.
[6:40]Like, even though I'm an actress, it felt like the most movie moment I had ever been in. Right. I was like, this is like a movie. Like this is not real life.
[6:48]And so then I got the flight home. And I remember waking up on the plane and I said to my friend, I think I think my mom died.
[6:58]And she was like, there's don't don't say that. Like it's not. That's not, you know, it's hard. And I was like, no, no, no, no, I feel like something's cut. Like I just feel it.
[7:08]And again, I kind of pushed that away. And then the one thing that I didn't really put in the book because this was just sort of it was hard to write.
[7:16]I really know how to write it. But my brother had said, I will be at the hospital when you get there.
[7:22]And I picked up the phone. We landed to call him and I heard the airport announcement in the back of our phone call.
[7:32]And I was like, my brother wouldn't be at the airport if my mom was alive. And I knew he had come to get me because I wasn't going to be okay.
[7:40]And so I just like that I don't really remember anything after that for like at least until we got to her house like two hours later.
[7:50]But I had to go through cost. I mean, it was like a nightmare. And he was he was there for me was waiting outside the airport. And the press knew at that time that my mom had passed like they had done for hours.
[8:02]What? Like before I did, which was so weird. And yeah, it was just such a strange it was such a strange thing. And when I walked into her house, my whole family was there.
[8:12]Because that was like how, you know, the flight was 10 and a half hours. Right. Like it was a totally different day. So everyone was there and they were just looking at me.
[8:20]And I remember thinking get out of here. Like this is not no, no, like no, no, I don't want to look at you. I don't want you looking at me. Like I just want to be here and understand what's happening.
[8:33]But then, you know, obviously it was lovely to have everyone around and all of that stuff. But yeah, it was a really it was a very strange moment and didn't feel real for a very long time.
[8:44]Which is why I think it took me so long to like actually write it down and put it in a book. I think I needed to kind of sit with it for a while and be like.
[8:52]Wait, what was that? What happened there. And then I had to decide, you know, for book purposes, like what I was going to put in there and what I wasn't. And I think I put the right version in the book. But it was interesting for sure.
[9:06]Sorry, I'm so sorry that happened to you. And thank you. I do like how you in the book, you say, no, this is the way it was meant to be like you left on a celebrating on an up and that's a nice way to really think about it, right?
[9:21]Yeah, it took me a while to get there. It definitely took me a while together, but it did hit me one day. I was like, oh my God, like that is how would I have said goodbye.
[9:31]I wouldn't have. And I don't think she would have either. And so I think that, you know, for our, for our connection and our love story, it was the way that it was supposed to end, even though it didn't feel fair at the time.
[9:46]And then you said that you moved houses because just even being across the street was too hard. Yeah.
[9:52]Yeah, it was what and I think everyone around me thought that I had like lost my mind and grief, you know, which you know well.
[10:00]in grief like we'll start to kind of go you know what's happening like are you okay and what's
[10:05]going on but I knew for me that I had like a choice to make I was like I can either sit here
[10:11]lose myself lose myself in grief look across the street at her house every day and like ask myself
[10:18]a lot of questions or I can do what I think my mom wants me to do which is my mom's famous words
[10:26]put your big girl pants on and let's go you know and so I did and I and I yeah I just kind of went
[10:34]to a different part of LA that had nothing to do with her really and just started a new life
[10:41]so I promise we'll get to all the joy and celebration and all that but tell me more about your
[10:46]mom I read about her in the book I saw her pictures she seems amazing your relationships
[10:51]seems so special like that you just sit and like held hands with her in the morning like oh my gosh
[10:56]oh my gosh I'm like I can get my daughter to hold my hand today she's like
[11:01]she would say goodbye to me it's cool I was like what the heck
[11:05]same I feel you they daughter just start a middle school and we're in the
[11:11]big it's a big huge huge if you're freaking me out I'm like I find myself like on the
[11:17]verge of tears like a couple times a day I'm like we're changing we're changing
[11:21]but it's beautiful and it's it is what it's supposed to be but my goodness it's strange
[11:26]yes and my mom was well the cool thing and I touched on a little bit in the book again I didn't
[11:31]I didn't want to give away too much of her life because that's hers to tell in that mind but
[11:35]but I do think that my mom and I are very similar in that I think she found like a magical
[11:43]intentional life through a divorce and you know some trauma and pain that she kind of had in her
[11:51]life that in sort of making magic for her children healed her in that way and so it's really
[11:57]fun for me that my my grief journey was also done in that way because it's sort of connected us
[12:04]in a way that maybe we hadn't been before even though she wasn't here to see it or she's
[12:09]somewhere watching but my mom was extraordinary she literally was like I mean she would if you
[12:16]walked into a room was like 14 famous people and my mother my mother was the one that they were
[12:20]looking at right like she was just she was this light she never never knew a stranger in the world
[12:27]she would dance with anyone she was really funny she looked a little bit like Elizabeth Taylor
[12:33]she got a little she's like very glamorous and beautiful always had a bright lift and you know her
[12:40]kids were everything and she really she was really extraordinary like you know if she was in
[12:47]if she was in pain or if she wasn't you know in like the ideal time in her life she would push
[12:53]through it with joy or making joy for other people and she was very strong and yeah she was just
[12:59]she was great and she was my best friend and I really think that my life in Hollywood my story
[13:05]in Hollywood is so different than some of the ones that you hear because of her she really never
[13:11]left my side she was with me always and you know from the time that I was like interested in having
[13:18]a dream even come true she like championed me and was there and gave up everything to make
[13:24]it happen and yeah she was just it is like my greatest honor to have known her truly yeah well thank
[13:32]you for sharing her with the rest of us because yeah it's secretly loved it by the way
[13:37]I know she's somewhere going that's me that's yeah she's talking about it
[13:45]keep going talk about it exactly no it's interesting you you mentioned about when you were younger
[13:52]in like comparing contrast essentially with other people because there are so many memoirs coming
[13:56]out yeah now and about what it's like to be in the public eye growing up and sort of the down and
[14:02]dirty and the you know everything related to that this book is definitely not like that this is
[14:08]a pure hearted like and not to say I mean those books are great too there's this is just a very
[14:12]different book this is about finding the hope past grief like getting through it and then
[14:18]essentially getting more out of every single day right you are treating every day like a party
[14:23]like every moment is a celebration and you show us through every month through you know every
[14:29]quarter and I was like at the I was reading it I was like I hope that she has a list of resources
[14:33]at the end that I can live on because I obviously need to buy this from Target and this is your
[14:38]Michael's and like stock up but I think there is that is the whole message of it it's like celebrate
[14:44]the ordinary make any day like breakfast for dinner like just do it up and live it up because
[14:50]we don't have forever right yeah yeah and I do think that part somebody asked me the other day
[14:56]there's really so magic you know it's been so funny to talk about it because there are like so
[15:00]is it a cauldron and a wand is it a book and I'm like no it's not that kind of magic it's an
[15:05]intention it's like it's a thing that you set in the morning where like today's not going to be
[15:10]ordinary it's going to be extraordinary that's just the way it's going to be and it doesn't mean
[15:13]that I don't get mad or lose my temper or have a Jerry McGuire moment where I throw things around
[15:19]my house and hate the day or whatever thank you for mentioning that you cry in the shower too by the
[15:25]way I was like all the time okay thank you all the rest of the shower I I also drink wine and
[15:31]cry simultaneously in the shower because you got to get both done sometimes that the drinking wine
[15:35]in the shower is that's hard lovely but doesn't get dilute if you get the water no you just you just
[15:41]have like you just sit and it's quiet and no one can bother you although they still try
[15:47]and you just have your wine and you cry and then you come out and you're like oh I'm fresh this is
[15:52]beautiful I highly recommend it I should have put that in the book I'm another one
[15:59]cartoon how to drown your soul is amazing but no I do think that like you know every day can be
[16:08]special in that way and I also think the part of it for me is maybe because I was a grown-up
[16:14]really young in a business and sort of doing that stuff maybe I have that child like thing about
[16:21]me where I'm like come on let's play and have fun and you know kind of do that stuff and
[16:25]so I do think some of it comes from that but it's been really fun for our family and fun for our
[16:29]friends and you know I do believe that it's achievable and when your kids look back on it that's
[16:35]what they'll remember there will they'll remember the silly and the fun and they'll forget
[16:39]about the frustration or the you know the bad moments and that's I feel like the mom legacy that I
[16:45]want to leave behind for sure I love that I'm very much like a party city mom like yes there is
[16:52]an occasion for a party city like paper plates in every color like let's just you know down
[16:58]yes but you have like taken this to a whole new level so now I have all of your pictures
[17:04]like I literally feel like you know it's like a friend being like oh no no you can make it better
[17:08]like here why don't you try it this way and like you're advised to everybody else like
[17:13]this is like I hope that people keep the book with them and that's why we kind of wanted to
[17:18]make it a smaller size is that we were hoping that somebody would be like yeah let's just keep
[17:22]this in the kitchen or keep this on a bookshelf in the living room and when we feel stuck or
[17:27]we want to feel inspired we can flip to something and then you know make it our own which is nice
[17:32]the braces cookies and everything I was so cute all right I took the rest of those two
[17:40]our dentist and she was so excited she was so psyched here was one other one you did that I
[17:49]absolutely loved it it looked like like beach balls it was that pattern but maybe they weren't beach
[17:54]balls but like like cake pops that oh yeah again for the summer party yes for the summer they were
[17:59]little beach balls they were right okay but that was also great I'm like I haven't thought of that
[18:04]like that's great it was fun those are easy kids love them yeah so what do you think when you
[18:11]have one of these days like and you change the tide of the mood and whatever with your kids like
[18:16]does it always work and like is there a way that like like do you because I feel like sometimes
[18:21]they just be like okay yeah no not today you know like is there a way to bring it in or does it
[18:28]does it start from the morning when you make a magical day like are you do wake up that way
[18:32]sometimes I mean I try to I really am like such a weirdo like I really I really do try either
[18:40]before I put my feet on the floor in the morning or when I'm in the shower I get a lot done in
[18:45]the shower like yeah so it's gonna be like an amazing shower you know it's not it's just a normal
[18:50]shower but for me it's like before it's next to the business but no I really do try to like I will
[18:56]often say out loud like all right let's go and make today magical and we'll like you know kind
[19:00]of figure it out and not all the time does it work sometimes everybody's in a bad mood and we
[19:06]you know don't get to it or work changes and you know something happens but I'll try to sprinkle
[19:12]in something you know magical when we can and we try to do it as much as possible like yesterday
[19:19]was a classic example of something not working out my friends my daughter's new friend was coming
[19:24]we missed her birthday last week so I was like I'm gonna make brownies but I'm not gonna make
[19:27]them from the box I'm gonna make them from scratch I'm gonna make chocolate fudge sauce to go with
[19:31]it I'm gonna put the candles in so I had like Halloween decor in the thing and it said I'm in my
[19:37]spooky era and it looks like you know Taylor so I like did the table up and I put it all out
[19:43]not realizing that I was in a rush and did not let the brownies cool before I put the candles in
[19:48]and so all of the wax melted into these brownies and this sweet girl just like she's like it's
[19:56]okay they're still gonna be good and I was like you know
[20:00]What?
[20:00]They are going to be good.
[20:02]And I was like, and you know what happened?
[20:03]I was like, the wishes that we made for you
[20:05]melted into the brownies.
[20:08]And therefore, we have to eat them.
[20:10]And I was like, we just got to eat it.
[20:11]So we just ate them with our hands.
[20:13]And we made sure we didn't get like gold foil
[20:17]from the candle and like, you know,
[20:19]and we just needed a thing.
[20:20]But something about it felt so special.
[20:23]And her mom sent me a message this morning.
[20:25]It's just like, I have to say,
[20:26]my daughter gave me the best compliments.
[20:28]She's that that mom makes me feel like
[20:30]I'm just one of them, nothing fancy about her.
[20:33]And I was like, nope, not when you're eating wax
[20:35]in the brownies.
[20:36]So not so fancy.
[20:40]But you know, we made it a thing and it was good.
[20:42]So it was okay.
[20:44]I have to say, my mom makes like really great brownies.
[20:47]And she once said to my sister-in-law,
[20:48]she was like, one day, I'll give you the recipe.
[20:52]And I was like, mom, you make Duncan Heinz brownies,
[20:55]but you put chocolate chips in them.
[20:56]This is not even a recipe.
[20:58]You know?
[20:59]She's like, she's Phoebe.
[21:00]She's not read.
[21:01]She's like, she's like, she's not read.
[21:02]She's like, yes, she's like, yes.
[21:03]Yes.
[21:04]Oh my God.
[21:05]Oh, it's so good.
[21:06]Oh my gosh.
[21:07]Okay, so why did you decide to write a book?
[21:12]Like, why and why now?
[21:13]I mean, I know you've processed grief with your mom
[21:15]and like in that.
[21:16]But like, why and why this and did you think about writing
[21:19]like a tell-all type of memoir?
[21:22]Like, did you think about only doing
[21:23]like a beautiful coffee table book,
[21:24]only with like balloons, jamming like, yeah.
[21:28]I mean, I think a lot of people,
[21:30]I've had a lot of people be like, yeah, write a memoir.
[21:32]And I'm like, yeah.
[21:34]I don't know that those stories need to be out there.
[21:36]And I also am very protective of,
[21:37]and maybe that's because I'm written about a lot in my life.
[21:41]I'm very protective of like just because it was my story
[21:44]and my takeaway from that moment
[21:45]doesn't mean that it was that for that other person.
[21:49]You know, so like, I never wanna go and tell a story
[21:51]about someone and then have the takeaway
[21:54]be wrong or, you know, more of my feeling than like an act.
[21:58]You know, I just, it gets muddy.
[22:00]And I have really wanted to honor my mom in some way.
[22:06]And I started this brand called the holiday junkie,
[22:09]which is like my happy place of all the things
[22:12]that I love throughout the year that are like decor and fun
[22:15]and joyful and kind of all those things.
[22:18]And so I was like, how do I kind of honor my mom in that way?
[22:23]How do I do this?
[22:24]And then I, I'm at the age now
[22:26]where I'm realizing that a lot of people around me
[22:28]are starting to have grief, like starting to lose parents
[22:31]or husbands, even wives, you know, people like that.
[22:34]And we're in a time in the world, obviously,
[22:37]where there's so much grief going on
[22:39]that I was like, maybe, maybe my story of coming out
[22:44]on the other side of it in a magical way.
[22:49]And it almost sort of blessing me the freedom of like,
[22:54]truly just living life to the fullest
[22:57]in hopes that when my time comes one day,
[23:01]I will have no regrets, right?
[23:03]And I will have gone, oh, but we had a good time.
[23:06]We had a good time.
[23:06]They're gonna remember the way it gets out.
[23:08]You know, maybe that is what I need to say to people.
[23:11]And so that's kind of how the book started
[23:14]and I was like, oh, and this is also maybe
[23:17]a really good chance 11 years in when I started writing it
[23:21]to just let go of another layer of grief.
[23:24]And I knew that writing the first part of the book
[23:26]was gonna be really hard.
[23:27]And it was like, it took me forever.
[23:29]Because I would just like sit and sob.
[23:31]And I had like, sand to lights at my desk.
[23:33]And I really, what did we get down to them?
[23:36]Like, not much, not much, but deep feelings,
[23:40]magic, magic, oh, it was awful.
[23:43]But I really got through it.
[23:44]And when I got through it, I was like, I honored her, you know?
[23:47]And I think because like, going back to that day
[23:51]was like the press knowing about it before,
[23:54]I never could say anything about it.
[23:56]Like I could never find the words or people wanted to know
[23:59]like what my thoughts were on losing my mother.
[24:01]And I was like, I don't know how to explain that to you.
[24:03]I don't, I don't know.
[24:05]And so this was my chance to say, okay,
[24:08]this is how I was to lose my mother.
[24:11]And now this is how I move on from losing my mother.
[24:13]And so it just felt like the right book.
[24:17]And it felt like the right thing.
[24:18]And I also felt like it was a really nice gift to my children.
[24:23]And my husband just sort of be like,
[24:25]this is our little magical life.
[24:27]And it's important and it's special.
[24:29]And it's worth sharing with other people, you know?
[24:32]And the kids have loved it.
[24:33]They feel, we just got the hard copies of it
[24:37]like last week.
[24:38]And the baby sits with it on the floor
[24:39]and he goes through and he goes, that's me.
[24:41]That's my birthday.
[24:42]And then Atticus goes, and that's vibrant.
[24:44]And they like, look at it.
[24:45]And they can't believe they're on the cover.
[24:46]And they love it.
[24:47]And my daughter actually read some of the first part
[24:49]about my mom that she didn't know.
[24:52]And she had to like put it down.
[24:53]She was like, I didn't know this about me.
[24:55]And she was like, this is hard.
[24:56]And I was like, yeah, it's hard.
[24:58]But you know, you can pick it up another time.
[25:00]So it's been good, I think, for us.
[25:03]It's been like another healing thing for us as well.
[25:07]That's amazing.
[25:08]It's like a yearbook for your family.
[25:10]Yeah.
[25:11]Yeah, it's nice.
[25:12]It's pictures.
[25:13]Call my mom me too.
[25:15]Your husband, by the way, came across so well.
[25:17]Like your new wedding ceremony in the backyard.
[25:20]I was like, oh, that would never occur to me.
[25:22]Like you're like breaking in the new house.
[25:25]Like let's get married, renewing our vows with the kids.
[25:28]Like that's so sweet.
[25:30]It was really fun.
[25:31]He loved it.
[25:31]It was a good surprise.
[25:32]He's a really good guy.
[25:34]And I would have never thought that my love story
[25:39]would have started in such pain
[25:43]and in such a weird version of who I was at the time
[25:46]because I really was so changed.
[25:48]But the way he handled it and how there for me he was
[25:51]and my family, really, for all of us,
[25:53]it was beautiful to see.
[25:54]And I do believe that he was gifted to me
[25:58]from her a little bit in some special way.
[26:00]So yeah, oh my gosh, that's so amazing.
[26:03]Will there be any follow-ups to the book?
[26:06]Are you hooked on it now?
[26:08]I am sort of hooked on it.
[26:10]Yeah, I would love to do a teen book.
[26:13]I like how to find magic in the midst of all that kind of chaos
[26:17]with all the hormones and the heart breaks and all that stuff.
[26:21]I think that that could be really fun to do.
[26:24]And yeah, I already definitely, even as I've been talking
[26:28]about the book a little bit, I'm like,
[26:29]why didn't I put that in the book?
[26:31]I've been taking notes and writing it down
[26:34]in case I want to do another one.
[26:36]But I was just really grateful to do this one
[26:38]and to have it coming out and have people care about it at all
[26:42]for you to care about it is insane to me.
[26:46]Thank you so much for the love and kindness that you've shown it.
[26:48]And I mean, I don't consider myself a real writer
[26:51]by any stretch, you're a real writer.
[26:54]So it's really nice to be recognized in that way.
[26:57]And yeah, it's special.
[26:59]It's a really cool time for me and my little fam.
[27:03]And I do feel like my mom is watching and really happy.
[27:08]So nice.
[27:09]By the way, a real writer in air quotes is that one.
[27:13]It's anyone who can put out a vulnerable version of themselves.
[27:17]And that's what you did.
[27:18]That's what it takes.
[27:19]It doesn't matter what the word is or the sentence structure.
[27:21]Like that's not what makes a really powerful book.
[27:24]It's what you say and how you say it.
[27:26]So thank you.
[27:27]I appreciate that.
[27:28]Thank you.
[27:29]I mean, not to say the sentence is for good, but you know what I mean?
[27:32]Yes.
[27:32]I had all put those because by the way,
[27:35]there were some that maybe some people should not see.
[27:38]I did send them to my friend Nicole and be like,
[27:41]this feels wonky.
[27:42]She's like, it's wonky.
[27:43]It's wonky.
[27:44]Yeah, I didn't write that one.
[27:45]I'm going to go to the game.
[27:48]Well, it's an accomplishment.
[27:50]And it's a tribute.
[27:51]And it inspires people to live a happier life.
[27:56]And how great is that?
[27:57]You know, a little bit of joy goes a long way.
[27:59]So anyway, congratulations.
[28:01]Thank you so much.
[28:02]So excited you'll be doing an event.
[28:03]It's a big show up.
[28:04]And I hope I'm there.
[28:05]But if not, I know I have others to do.
[28:08]I'll take lots of pictures a little bit.
[28:09]Yes, please do lots of love.
[28:11]And I can't wait.
[28:12]Yeah, yeah.
[28:13]All right, thank you.
[28:14]All right, this is so fun.
[28:16]Bye.
[28:17]Bye.
[28:18]Bye.
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