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a podcast for everyone. Hey, guys, how are you doing today?

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Speaker 2: Hello? Hello, Thank you for having us, You for having us.

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Speaker 1: Man, you guys are everywhere these days, including Dancing with

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the Stars, where you have vowed to be bad.

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Speaker 2: And we're so excited.

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Speaker 3: So this is a dream come true for the both

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of us, and we can think of a more ectic,

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beautiful way than to announce it on dedication night of

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Dancing with the Stars.

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Speaker 4: And that was just a coincidence of that aligned and

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with this like interview. It's all like lining up in

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this really beautiful kismet way, and we're just really grateful.

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Speaker 1: We got to talk about the book, especially when you

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open it up and all those Christmas lights are right there.

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It's the old fashioned Christmas bobs. What is the actual

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theme of this book? Because I really felt like I

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belonged to the family that's featured inside this story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, It's called follow Off Family, and it's about how

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family can be a lot of different things. It's not

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always the conventional family you see. It can be a

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mom and you, a dad, or two chosen family, a

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furry friend. Just family is community and family is love

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and those people who see for who you are. So

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we wanted to showcase all types of families in this

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book because we're going to have a future child and

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we want our child to be able to see a

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family that looks like ours two dads in a children's book,

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and so we hope that we can inspire everyone and

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to show that everyone's story deserves to be told.

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Speaker 1: Guys, Steph Lou did an amazing job with the illustrations.

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Oh my god, especially when it comes to looking inside

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that crib at that baby.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I was like that was manifesting our future.

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Our illustrator, Steph Lou is the most incredible illustrator we

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could have ever dream to work with. We worked with

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her on our first book, How Lucky Am I That

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came out in twenty twenty four, and we instantly knew

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we wanted to work with her again on fallow Off Family,

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and she's just so incredible because she took you know,

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she asked for childhood photos of us from our childhood homes,

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our parents, our sisters and brothers, and she took those

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photos and put them into the books. So you can

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see inside our childhood homes. You can see our dogs,

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you can see the big Filipino feasts that I used

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to have during the holidays. And we are just so

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grateful that, you know, our memories and our lives are

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just forever immortalized in these pages that we'll get a

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show to our kids and our grandkids and our friends

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and our chosen family throughout the years.

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Speaker 1: Or so so proud of it the way you guys

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paid attention to detail. I mean, you've got some really

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beautiful things going on inside this book.

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Speaker 3: You can see on the page I'm Filipino, so you

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can see my big Filipino family. You can see the

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pun sit, the pula book of the Lechaflon, all of

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these really cozy feelings of the holidays on these pages,

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the kids in the background doing karaoke. It's so funny

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because she really captured the essence of being in my family,

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my Filipino family during the holidays. And I am so

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so grateful and lucky that I'll get to have these

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memories forever in these pages.

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Speaker 1: Reader. Some families need to know that music has come

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with this book, which I think is absolutely amazing. But

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what came first the songs or the story?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it honestly, it happened very simultaneously.

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Speaker 4: Something we learned when writing our first book was that

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writing a children's book is very very similar to writing

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a pop song. It's just like short phrases, very simple, rhyming,

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rhyme schemes, and like that was like a big enlightening

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moment for us. So for the second book, we wrote

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a song with the book in mind and the illustrations

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in mind, and we just love to create together. So

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we went, we just kept going, and we ended up

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creating a whole album and then asking our friends who

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have beautiful families that were inspired by Meghan Train or

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Baila Flex. They're on the album, and so it's like

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this whole universe at this point.

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Speaker 2: And then after that we were like, what if people

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want to sing together? We love to sing with our

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family and sing with our friends, and so we had

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a cheap music you can sing along.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, such a fun project. Because Scott was saying earlier,

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making a book into a song itself was just an

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amazing experience. And then to create a whole album called

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My Family that people can listen to year round because

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the album actually, even though the book is a holiday book,

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the album is a book for all times of the year.

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So it's great that, you know, families are people of

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all ages can listen to these songs that means so

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much to us.

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Speaker 2: That was so warm and cozy.

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Speaker 3: There's covers of songs or You're My Sunshine featuring Baila Fleck.

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There's original songs like All I Need featuring Megan Trainer,

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Speaker 4: Like really big fans of things, and something that's fun

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about being a fan of something is like getting to

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dive in and like watch all the music videos and

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then watch all the behind the scenes. Like honest, we

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love like having lots of stuff to consume when we

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when we are really a big fan of something like Wicked,

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We've watched all the behind the scenes, all the John

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two interviews, and so we wanted to like create that

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with this. We were like, we'll do cheat music, We'll

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do a whole album, and people can discover this and

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like and so it's kind of like a world you're

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diving into.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, please do move. There's more with Scott and Mark

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coming up next. The name of the book La La

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La Family from Scott Hoyne and his husband Mark. Is

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it okay to sip on coco while I'm reading this

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book and sharing it with my grandkids?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Oh yeah, thank you. That was definitely our intention

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for sure is to have a cozy book you can

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read with your kids as you're putting the you know,

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to bed.

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Speaker 4: Exactly, and those are like some of the best memories

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the out of the kid to be like the soundtrack,

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and also just to be the children's book in those

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memories the kids have in their formative years.

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Speaker 2: It's like that. I mean, that's an honor Scott.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be a Christmas tour for the band

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coming up in the next month. Any surprises out there,

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what's going to be brand new because we want to

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make this into our yearly tradition.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 4: We have so much new stuff and we have the

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most beautiful epic set we've ever had.

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Speaker 2: We're like playing a game with the audience we've never.

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Speaker 4: Played and there's like really really beautiful arrangements that we're doing.

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I'm more excited for the store than I've ever been

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for a tour.

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Speaker 2: I like truly can't wait.

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Speaker 4: And this album Christmas in the City, is like really inspired,

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and we were all together in the studio and it

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just came from this magical place that like remind me

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of some of the early Panasonics days. I'm just like

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really excited for this new era. It might be a

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little bit difficult to do tour and Dancing with the

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Stars at the same time, but I am energized right

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now because it's such a beautiful era of life.

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Speaker 2: That I think I can do it.

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Speaker 1: For a brief second, let's go back to dancing with

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the stars. Do you have any kind of pull when

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it comes to what you want to dance with? Because

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I mean music is just so personal as well as dance.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I've literally had the best experience over the

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past six weeks. I can't believe it's already halfway. It's

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been the most intense, beautiful, like like scary but in

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a good way vulnerable experience I've ever had. And I'm

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just I'm just treasure it. And next week it's a

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Wicked week And that's my favorite. That is our favorite show,

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Our favorite movie. It's just on repeat at our house.

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I was like going in because I'm like a dramatic

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of that musical, and so I am really excited for.

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Speaker 2: The dance this week.

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Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a big moment and

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then and just like I'm excited to see how it

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pans out. The cast is so amazing, Thank good, everyone's

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so sweet. I'm just treasuring every single moment and just

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trying to make the most of it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been so much fun just be a part

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of it all on Dedication night, Martin me like God,

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and in Scott's partner Riley, who we adore so much.

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It's it's it's been so much fun, and we like

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don't want the experience to end because we're having so

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much fun watching Scott live this incredible dream.

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Speaker 4: And I am practicing choreo all the time because it's

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so when you're out there, it is terrifying and your

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mind goes blank and you have to rely on muscle memory,

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and so I just have to drill it, drill it,

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drill it, like and yeah, but hevn't you're out there.

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Speaker 1: Made a lot of being in this moment of now.

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Is there a message you would like to share with

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new readers as well as fans of the music.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Merry Christmas, Happy holidays, spend time with people you

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love and you connect with who are your family and family.

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Speaker 2: Can mean so many deside. I'm gonna go ahead and

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take that on again. We love you so much. We

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hope you have a wonderful holiday season.

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Speaker 4: Family can be anything, your chosen family, your family at home,

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your friends. Just find the people and the things you

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love to do, and I hope you celebrate and have

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the best stay of our.

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Speaker 3: Truly, and we hope our book is speaking of hope

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and representation for families that look like yours. We really,

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really really wanted to make sure that this book incorporate

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all types of families, all types of love. So hopefully

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when you're reading Fall Up Family, you're seeing your heard,

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you feel the love, you feel the joy, and we

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love you and we will always love guys.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for taking the time to share

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this book with me, as well as the brand new

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music and tour plus Dancing with the Stars. You guys,

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be brilliant and please come back to this show. Anytime

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in the future,