Brittany Luce

Like, I am now the age of the characters in the book.

We are now the grown folks.

We are now in grown folks' business.

There's some things about it, like, where the contours of the story, I understood aspects of them as a child, even though, like, I very much lived a child's life.

Still, like, I was around women who were around that age, who were in their mid-30s to mid-40s a lot when I was a kid.

And hearing their conversations, Taryn McMillan is excellent at writing dialogue.

And the dialogue in this book

And like the individual voices of the characters hear them very clearly because they sounded like my mom talking on the phone to her friends.

So it was interesting.

It felt like a full circle moment to be like, oh my God, these are the conversations I was always trying to like ear hustle on.

And now they are not quite the same as the conversations that I had with my friends, but some aspects of them still feel true in ways.

Yeah, I was going to say, I mean, how would anybody know it was him?

That's my question.

How would anybody know it was you?

Yeah, I was going to say, that's the Streisand effect.

He did that to you.

Exactly.

And I'm like, all the guys in here, for the most part, they suck really bad.

And it's like, why would you voluntarily let people know?

Don't put that on Terry.