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There it is.

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Thank you, sir.

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[CONTINUED APPLAUSE]

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Thank you, Tyler, and thank
you to Tyler and Paola

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for all your work and for
making this space available.

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And I'd like to thank
also Bojan Louis

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for his curation of the
distinguished visitors series

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and to all of you
for coming out.

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It's delightful to see you here.

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I'll warn you in advance, I
might have gone a little hard

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with these introductions.

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So we'll just get to
them here in a minute.

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But I think of all the
readings I have the pleasure

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to introduce, this is my
absolute favorite reading,

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a reading in which we
celebrate first books by four

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amazing writers who are also
alums of the MFA program

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at U of A.

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I've had the pleasure of working
with each of these students

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and have, after a great
deal of observation,

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come to the
following conclusions

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about their true natures.

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So I will be introducing our
beautiful readers tonight

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by their Dungeons and Dragons
classes, Fifth Edition

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specifically for the real ones
out there with a few liberties

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taken because--

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screw it-- because we all need
companions for our adventures

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and because these
writers are bad ass.

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And I cannot imagine any
companions better out there

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in the darkness than these
four whom I also call friends.