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Enjoy your exploration Missed opportunity. I love sharing conversations. Hosting

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them is going to require some show prep. My podcasting

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platforms feature thousands of guests. Now what you don't have

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access to are the missed opportunities. The show prep was

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one hundred percent completed the conversation and didn't happen. I

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keep all of my notes because I believe paths will

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one day cross again. Let me explain missed opportunity. It's

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my questions and stays without their answers. I'm leaving open

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enough space at the end of every question, hoping they'll

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download the talk and insert their answers, and it's happened

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four different times. Missed opportunity is a lost piece of history.

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It's a message in a bottle that's been tossed out

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to see. I hope to locate a destination. This week,

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we're putting focus on my missed opportunity with author Michael Rose,

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the author of the book Sorting Room, historical fiction. The

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critics were unbelievably in love with the story, claiming that

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readers will develop a sincere empathy for Unus as well

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as her family. The story is compelling, one of those

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books that sticks with you long after the final paragraph.

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One of those books that not only is eye opening,

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but very interesting. During the depression era as well as

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the nineteen sixties, The Sorting Room was Michael Rose's debut novel.

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Eunice and her brother aren't exactly close. She's alone, living

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on the edge. It was her very first job that

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Unice discovered Gussie, a mentor of sorts. Well guess what.

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She was very young, and she was also very pregnant

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working in the sorting room. The invitation to share a

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conversation with Michael Rose arrived on September sixteenth, twoenty twenty one.

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I wanted to do this conversation due to how real

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that the author made each in every scene. It was

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disruptive to the point of creating its own smell and embrace.

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We would meet the following Monday at one pm Eastern.

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A zoom link was sent. The conversation was going to

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take place bad. It didn't. A mistake on my behalf.

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I'm the one who planted it on the wrong date.

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I instantly rode back to him saying, can we please

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set up a different time? They rode back to me, Sure,

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let's do it on this date. I couldn't prep fast enough.

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Coming up next, the questions the statements. Michael Rose, Hey,

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thanks for coming back to Missed Opportunity this week. It's

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my missed opportunity with author Michael Rose. Do you see

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the post COVID nineteen generation as being better readers? They're

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more attracted to storylines. The name of your book is

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the sorting room. Building up the strength to write a

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book of this nature. I mean, you really get authentically real.

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What was your most memorable moment while writing the story? Okay,

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now I am a writer published at that I know

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there are a ton of drafts, so I always want

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to hear what other authors are going through. How many

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drafts did you make during this entire journey. You have

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a way of creating characters that really feel like somebody

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that we already know. Okay, let's talk about Unis. Unice

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is very pro action. She likes to get stuff down.

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Is that somebody in your own personal life, like maybe

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you a debut novel. What has the experience been like?

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Because these are the valuable lessons that keep us growing forward.

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And the final question learning the ability to share stories.

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It doesn't just happen. How did you learn how to

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do it? And there you have it, missed opportunity, a

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lost piece of history. You now know the questions, so

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let's locate the reactions. The door is always going to

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be open. If you are or no Michael Rose, please

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reach out to me at erroc at gmail dot com,

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A R. R oe c at gmail dot com. As always,

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be brilliant