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Good morning. How are you doing. I'm done a wonderful arrow. How

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are you fantastic? Do you know
how many lives you're going to change with

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this book? I mean, I
hope you know inside your heart that you

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are speaking a language that has always
been a kept secret or a reason to

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go hide. Yes, yes,
that is the goal. That is the

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goal to change as many lives as
possible. Absolutely, to put it into

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book form by way of word as
well as illustration. What was the journey

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like for you? Because this didn't
just happened overnight. This this was a

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process. Oh, absolutely, absolutely
honestly, quite honestly, this is truly

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the journey from childhood, a childhood
to adulthood. You know, I've talked

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it algal since I was about a
day old, and so having the skin

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disorder, and going through all the
challenges as a kid, as a teenager,

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then as an adult with all of
that, just compiling it all together,

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this book truly was inspired from my
own life experiences, not so much

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of what I know experience, but
what I wish I had growing up.

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The confidence that is exuded throughout this
entire children's book make the journeys just so

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much worse it, so I'm excited. I would love to be in a

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focus group with you to see how
the young kids are going to what kind

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of song is going to come from
them when they My spots are part of

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me. And just in case you
forgot, I have patches. I mean,

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I see you playing that guitar.
But I would like to know what

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their song is that they're hearing inside
their heart. Because this page is filled

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with music, I want to know
what the song is. Oh my goodness,

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that song is full of joy.
That song is full of confidence.

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The song is full of self love
and true happiness, embracing who they truly

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are, loving their spots, loving
the skin that they're And that song is

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a empowerment song, full of strength, full of hope, full of love

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for self and others. It's just
the song that not only children should be

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singing, but even adults as well, to truly embrace who they are,

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embrace their uniqueness, their unique skin, and to this love who they are.

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That that is a very beautiful song
that I want to hear myself,

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absolutely, And I love the way
that you know when it comes to that

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self love, it's not conceit,
it's not over confidence. It's self love.

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Without us, we cannot have an
outreach. Absolutely absolutely, I don't

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think people understand it's how powerful it
is to look past flaws and imperfections of

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oneself and truly embrace and love who
we really are to our core, despite

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the flaws, despite the imperfections.
That self love is such an empowering and

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fulfilling love to have for yourself.
And I really hope that everyone who reads

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I absolutely positively love my Spots get
some chance an opportunity to really feel and

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embrace true genuine self love is an
activation book because you identify a situation,

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we create the conversation. Now we
activate the conversation, and people's lives change.

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Yes, yes, absolutely, that
is That is how how life goes

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right. There are situations and their
experiences that we go through and that we

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experience in our lives, and during
their experiences comes you know, learning,

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being able to grow. And what
the book shows is that even though the

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little girl is going through these different
experiences and changes with her skin, and

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you know, kids are very curious
about her skin, she's taking those experiences

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and she truly is exuding confidence and
self love and she's growing, not only

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growing as you know, a little
girl who's loving and embracing her unique skin,

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but also being able to help others
grow so they're able to see that

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we're all just human beings and should
be treated as such with dignity and respecting

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kindness. How did you meet up
with Nina Mada? Because I mean,

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I mean, the illustrations in this
are just un unbelievable. I mean,

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I mean the two of you have
have created a collaboration here. Yes we

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are listen. I truly believe we
are like a powerful duo because with the

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message behind the book, and also
with her energetic illustrations and her talent combined

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together, this really is a beautiful
illustration, a beautiful message packed into one

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beautiful book. I came across Nina
through Harper Harper Has They're amazing, and

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they basically paired us together and it
has been nothing but magic ever since.

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Love Nina. I'll tell you one
of the one of the most brilliant parts

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of the story is the opening where
she's looking at herself in the mirror and

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look at that smile. Look at
that smile. Yes, yes, her

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smile just gives so much joy,
so much confidence, just looking at herself

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and her reflection in the mirror,
seeing everything about her, her spots,

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just all of who she truly is, and loving that girl. Oh my

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god, that's just self empowering with
it itself. Yeah, it could be

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getting you know, there is a
spiritual energy about it. That's one thing

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that I've always learned about. That
smile, the energy that she has even

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when she's dancing. There's just something
about her that says, you know,

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you can feel this way too.
Just set yourself free, be a personality

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of your own. Oh my god, that is just perfectly said. Truly

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it is because you know that that's
what I wanted the book to give,

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right So when you see her and
her smiles and everything that she's doing,

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that you really see, Wow,
if she can do it, I can

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do it too. You know.
I want that same freedom and liberation.

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Could just be me and to love
me for who I am and accept me

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for how I am. So you
hit it right there on the nail,

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that back what I wanted, that
mile and this beautiful little girl in the

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book. I absolutely positively love my
Spots exactly what I wanted the readers to

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receive from it. There's gonna be
adults that are gonna pick up this book,

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and you know, they're they're gonna
have memories of their childhood because they

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struggled through this, and they're gonna
find, you know, inner peace because

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of you. Yes, listen,
this book brought me interpeade. And I'm

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an adult, you know, I'm
an adult. I really look at this

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book as a self loved letter to
every reader who reads it, because it

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was truly a self loved letter to
me as I wrote it. It really

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just brought so much joy and healing
in a sense as well as an adult

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while I wrote this book, because
truly, had I had this book growing

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up, who knows who I would
have become and how much you know,

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I would have loved myself way more
sooner than I you know, did.

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So I'm really hoping that this book
does bring that inner healing to adults because

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a lot of adults we need that, We need that for sure. You're

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so right about that, because I
mean, right away, I mean,

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it was it was like, oh
my god, the last time that I

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was touched by the realism of everything
around us. I remember growing up watching

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Fat Albert, I mean, and
the thing is is that with Fat Albert,

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nobody was the same. And that's
what I love about your book is

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that you're not the same, but
you can still have a very very happy

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life. Absolutely absolutely, and I
think that that is what brings the happiness

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in our lives for every person,
whether they have the ligo or they don't

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have it. Algo is to understand
that your super superpower is truly your uniqueness.

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The super power truly is you know, there's no one like you,

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and no one can do what you
do right and just to adversity, even

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end the book, there are not
one child that looks exactly the same,

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which I love that about the book
as well. Thank you so much Ninia

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for bringing out that diversity in the
book as well. But that is the

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beauty of it. No one is
like another person and we all should embrace

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our uniqueness and all of our differences. When you were writing the book,

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did your inner child, that child
of your past? What did she sit

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next to you? Oh? My
god? Yes. In fact, I

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always saying I believe that my inner
child wrote this book because really the words

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that were pinned on this paper were
the words and the encouragement that I needed

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as a kid growing up. I
didn't see superheroes or any characters in books

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or even on television that looked like
me. So because of that, I

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didn't know how to embrace my uniqueness. Others didn't know how to embrace my

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differences, so it was very difficult. I haven't did a ligo in this

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skin disorder and being different, right, So I truly believe that my inner

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child wrote this book and really put
out the words that I wish I could

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have heard as a kid to encourage
me, to remind me that I was

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beautiful just as I am. And
my inner child has written a beautiful book

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every child out there in the world, Yeah, to basically tell them and

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remind them you're beautiful just the way
you are. And brating a book like

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this, you know, it's screaming
for one more thing. A website where

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people who are in hiding can come
out of Oh. Absolutely well for those

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that are looking to receive this beautiful
story, this beautiful book, this beautiful

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gifts what I like to call it. You can go on to HarperCollins dot

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com and just type in I absolutely
positively love my spots and she is available

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to everyone. Also, she's available
in retail stores and in every bookstore that

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you can purchase books. What did
you learn from this journey, because I

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mean you're still a student in life. Oh yeah, we're always learning.

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We're learning every single day. And
what I have learned is that I am

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able and capable of doing even the
most wildest things in the world for me.

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I never thought that a little girl
who once select confidence and self love,

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who I really didn't know my worth
and value, could be the person

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today inspiring others to love who they
are, to understand their worth and value,

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and to embrace themselves. So I've
learned that I have a superpower as

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well. All I have to do
is to step out and take the risk.

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Yeah. I love your attitude.
You got to come back to this

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show anytime in the future. The
door is always going to be open for

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you. Yes, invite me back
and I'll be here. Well, you

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be brilliant today. Okay, Well, thank you so much. Have a

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great one.