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"Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!" said Thoreau, but he did not know of the ozone layer and its attacks, or fracking...

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Ohhhhh that’s heartbreaking. What would he say now?! smh

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Great dialogue here! And frustration over academia rings all too true. Loving the multitudes !

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Thanks, Sally. Glad you’re enjoying it.

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I love Dr. Evans. There is something surreal to reading about her dean approaching her to apply as a DEI hire while watching the tennis match currently inhabiting my email inbox re the "evils" of DEI and reducing the fed work force and impounding funding. Your characters are great, Julie!

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Awww, thanks, Mary Beth!! Especially for all your great feedback and encouragement on this chapter. (I took *every* suggestion ~ !!) Agree -- it's quite surreal the echoes from many layers of this story, given the current times. I started it so long ago w/ a sense of urgency. Little did I know back then that *this* would be the year.

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Grace didn't pick an easy field, did she?

On to the next!

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Yeah, easy isn’t her jam. 😉

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Great second chapter. Looking forward to the next installment!

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Thanks for reading, Sally. Glad you're enjoying it.

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This whole description of Grace’s mother is brilliant. “Her mother’s life in Curtis Bay, an old industrial neighborhood south of downtown, is like a ’70s TV show set in the ’50s.”

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Thanks, Ben. It’s a real place. 🙂

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I had a feeling 😉

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I can't even begin to imagine the hours of research you've had to put into this Julie, I am truly speechless!

I think you're flying like those dishes too!

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Awwww, thanks, Susie! For this chapter in particular, I was a bit worried it was TMI. That early going in a novel where the balance between action and world-building is so delicate. Thanks for being here!

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Those last sentences! Perfection. Loved reading a little background/internal psychology on Grace and Barbara. Their determination to be smart above all else. A force to be reckoned with the big oil oligarchs.

I vote LabPartner. 😂

And this cracked me up!!! “BMWs beat beehives.”

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😂 THANKS for sharing what you enjoyed, Kimberly. I was a little anxious what would land. (Including that BMW bit!) Thanks for being here.

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I’m loving your characters and excited to keep reading!

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🙏

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Ahhh, just what I was waiting for this morning - more Dr. Grace. The writer in me relates all too much with how much research goes into these stories. But maybe I underestimate, maybe you are Dr. Grace.

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Ha! I’ll never tell. . . . She contains multitudes. (I got a bit frustrated w/ myself - how much info to include, cut, cut, cut, cut . . . “agenda showing”. . . cut, cut, cut.)

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