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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you for that introduction.

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I hope I live up to it.

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And thank you all
for being here.

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And thank you to the Poetry
Center, to Tyler, to Paola.

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Yeah, it's great to be back.

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So, yeah, I'm going to be
reading from my book The Wet

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Wound, which is about
the grief I experienced

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after the death of my father.

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So I want to say, please
take care of yourself.

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So if you need to cry, cry.

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I'm pretty jet-lagged,
so it might happen.

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If you need to laugh, laugh.

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If you need to leave,
you'll be welcomed back

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if you choose to return.

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But before I start, I
have a favor to ask.

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And I would like you to think
of someone that you have lost,

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that you would like to
bring to this reading.

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So I want you to
think of that person.

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And I'd like you to just
tell the person beside you,

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their name, and briefly
who they were to you.

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So think of someone
that you have lost,

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that you'd like to
bring to this reading,

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and just tell the person
beside you their name,

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and briefly who
they were to you.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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[LAUGHTER, CHATTER]

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Thank you for that.

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And yeah, I would
love to hear about who

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you brought after the reading.

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Obviously, I'm bringing my dad.

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And I also want to bring
one of the sharpest writers

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that I have ever met,
Lucy Kirkman, who

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would give me feedback
in that room right there.

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And she helped make
this book what it is.