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[APPLAUSE]

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I think that one of the weirdest
things about having this

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as a job is that it's like
every so often somebody tries

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really hard to make you cry--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--and then you have
to give a reading.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Yeah.

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It did.

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It did work.

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Thank you, TC.

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That was beautiful.

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There was a time in
2016 when TC sent me

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an email about my first
book, where basically I

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think he said, "This was good.

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I'm glad to share
the world with you."

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And I was like, "Oh my God."

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I can't believe that this
person whose work I so admire

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knows anything about me.

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Hi, everyone.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for being here.

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Thank you to Tim and Anne so
much for making this possible,

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and for introducing us,

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those of us who don't already
know, to HD and Bryher.

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Thank you to Tyler
for, I don't know,

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doing all of the shepherding
of the space that you do.

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Thank you to Paola for
answering my thousand emails,

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and to Bruno for making my
PowerPoint possible, which

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I will introduce the
rest of you to soon.

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And yeah, thank you
to everybody else who

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made this happen, all of
the invisible labor that

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always goes into making
these kinds of things happen.

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Yeah.