#katie shepard

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"I support all your crimes, baby, and I'm taking out a second mortgage for your bail money." alskdjkdjsks 😂🤣

why is this true? my god

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No One Does It Like You by Katie Shepard ~ Book Excerpt

NO ONE DOES IT LIKE YOU BOOK EXCERPT A CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S FICTION NOVEL College sweethearts reunite to restore more than just an old inn in No One Does It Like You by Katie Shepard, author of Sweeten the Deal. BOOK EXCERPT Rose clenched her jaw when she saw the article her aunt was reading. “That newspaper is three months old,” Rose informed her aunt. “Oh? Well, like you said, I have short-term…

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Book Review: No One Does It Like You by Katie Shepard

No One Does It Like You is a second chance romance that throws two college sweethearts, Tom and Rosie, into forced proximity at her family's hurricane-weathered B&B in Martha's Vineyard after they've been divorced for ten years. He's desperate to win her back, as evidenced by the meandering voicemail he leaves on her phone where he tells her he still loves her and would do anything for her. She's on the fence. Still reeling with with hurt, distrust, and skepticism. However, she gives him an opportunity to prove himself by asking if he'll help her renovate the B&B.

Can they repair the shingles of their crumbling relationship as seamlessly as they can repair the roof?

This had its cute moments, but I found I had trouble suspending belief in places. I still don't buy into the circumstances around Tom and Rosie's initial break up. It fell flat. I did like some of the quirky additions, though. Like the walls being infested with bees, Boyd careening on the roof in the middle of a thunderstorm, and the fandom girlies showing up on the B&B property. A decent pick for those looking for something light and carefree to close out the summer.

Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for the ARC in exchange for my review.

3/5 stars

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When Broadway actor Tom Wilczewski is about to jump into raging waters during a category 3 hurricane to save his co-lead, he calls his ex-wife and leaves her a message telling her he regrets their divorce and still loves her. Two months later Rose Kelly is in a bad place and hear’s Tom’s message for the first time. She reaches out and asks for his help to revitalize her family’s B&B in Martha’s Vineyard and Tom, hoping for a reunion agree’s. What she doesn’t count on is for the rest of his Broadway cast to show up and help. Rose and Tom’s relationship ended because of a lack of communication and they were only 22 years old. Way too young to figure out that they needed to fight for their marriage instead of just give up. 10 years later, Tom is still acting and in his first big Broadway role, yet he doesn’t hesitate to rush to Rose’s side to provide whatever help he can give. In the telling of this story we learn quite a bit about their dynamics as a couple and what went wrong, and what I loved about that telling is that with more adult eyes, the things that were so important at 22 were not as important at 32. It’s the message behind trying to make things work that, well, made this kind of awkward novel work too. There was a fun sub-plot to this story about Tom being romantically involved with his male co-lead, Boyd, who’s actually a very well known actor. The reality is a bit different that what’s playing out in the gossip rags, but Tom is actually bi-sexual, as he was when he and Rose met. This sub-plot was a bit of mis-direction but also had a lot of charm and brought a sense of lightness to what could have been a kind of serious novel about second chances. A lot of that had to do with Boyd, his not very bright decision making, and his pack of groupies. I was never sure where the scene would lead when Boyd entered the page, but I always looked forward to it. This novel wasn’t perfect. Tom and Rose’s second chance was filled with a lot of doubt and gray areas that sometimes made their character’s decisions kind of hard to follow. I loved Tom’s fortitude in wanting to win Rose back despite all of her hesitations. He was all in, and because of that I was all in too. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I received a copy of this book through NetGalley for an honest review and it was honest. Click this link to purchase this book!* No One Does It Like You Copyright 2024 The Reading Chick All Rights Reserved *Amazon Associate- if you purchase this book through the above link I’ll receive a small stipend.

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Sweeten The Deal - Katie Shepard

"MBA student Caroline Sedlacek knows her personal balance sheet is a little lopsided. On the asset side, at twenty-two she’s got an NCAA trophy, a great education...and the two million dollars she unexpectedly inherited. Liabilities? She's never had friends, a boyfriend, or any life experiences away from the tennis court or the classroom. She'd love to invest herself in everything else, but "everything else" never came easily for her.

In the ten years since he left art school as a vaunted prodigy, Adrian Landry has won shows and major prizes—and done his best to shed his reputation as a pretty man who makes pretty paintings. Though currently broke and sleeping off a bad break-up on his college roommate’s couch, he knows this is the chance to get his life back on track at thirty-three—he just needs the money to find a new gallery. 

When Adrian’s roommate lists him on a thinly veiled escort site, Caroline is not the patron he expected. She’s way too young, way too naive, and loudly uninterested in having sex with him. Instead, they’re both going to get exactly what they want: a little culture on her side, and a lot of cash on his. Aside from their sugar baby arrangement, they’ve got nothing in common. But as they reel from the symphony to the Haymarket, they learn that what they want and what they need might be two very different things."

Read Date - July 2024

Length - 384 pages

Genre - Romance, Chick Lit, New Adult

Rating - 8/10

Stars - ★★★★☆

Notes - The concept of Adrien becoming a sugar baby is SO INTERESTING because you usually only hear about it from the women's perspective. Swapping the gender roles here is beautifully done and I adore it. Obviously I haven’t gotten too far in the book yet, but I feel like Caroline is so Autistic Coded like that girl is ME. I don’t care if it’s not canon, this is an autistic girlie pop. I think Tom and Adrien’s friendship is cute, and the way they look out for each other is nice. I love how Caroline is clueless, and honestly is just really good autistic representation in my (autistic) opinion. Like, the sushi scene specifically was such a cute example of autism that doesn’t include meltdowns, and I loved how they talked about all the different colors and textures of the sushi were described, and the way she’s physically unable to finish the sushi. I like that Adrien keeps trying to get Caroline to go out and interact more in the world with people that aren’t just him and Tom. Caroline and Adrien together are such a cute and hot duo, i genuinely can’t get enough of them. The hatred that her family brings is an interesting dynamic, because not a lot of people talk about the resentment and ableist thrown around so carelessly. The spice in this book is so well played out and I’ve never liked it more. And in chapter 12, Tom mentions that he believes that Caroline is neurodivergent. GIRL ME TOO!!! I THINK THAT SHIT TOO!! THATS MY AUTISTIC QUEEN!! and my LORD was the representation FANTASTIC!! Sometimes, the best part of coding a character as autistic instead of writing them as autistic is that you arent confined to certail social pressures that are expected when writing an autistic character. You’re able to write them more realistic as a result of coding them, and i think its perfect here. Adrien’s friends being piece of shit assholes actually makes sense when you consider the fact that Adrien himself used to be a snob. They’re also upset over the break up, which doesn’t justify anything but makes it make sense. Their first kiss was so passionate and it make my stomach do little flips like hello!!! The declaration of love was also so sweet. He supports her during the ‘othering’ of the people which was a realistic thing to talk about. Again, the spice and smut in this book is so well done, and i loved every moment. It was so sensual and sweet and delicious. I think it’s even better knowing Caroline is meant to be a neurodivergent person, because it shows that even we can have sex lives and be active. The drama that happens in this book is also so good, and as someone who just enjoys drama, it was also perfect. The conversation with Caroline’s family was tense as fuck and hard to listen to when they’re sitting there verbally harassing her for her money. Adrien trying to sell his portraits as a struggling artist is interesting to hear, with Adriens love of Caroline being intertwined with it. The “big bad” of Adrien viewing their relationship as a bad thing was another realistic plot point, and i generally adore their relationship. The choice of moving in together is very sweet and it’s amazing. They deserve each other and it’s been awhile since I’ve felt this way about a book. I think it was perfect and i recommend it to everyone, and i think it’s perfect representation without even outwardly saying it. This was a really really good book. 

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them... 2...

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Abby Brothers in Seattle photographed by Michael Donovan. Styling Katie Burnett. 

Pacific Standard Magazine, 2012. Creative director: me

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Shepard Questionaire

Portrait done by @rock-paperback-scissors so very long ago

Was tagged by @alyssalenko literally a year ago.

Tagging: @swaps55, @hawkeykirsah, @painterofhorizons​, @makoparkingonly​, & anyone else who wants to do it

Alias/Nicknames: Kathrine Anne “Katie” Shepard-Hackett

Gender: Female

Age: currently about 27-ish

Zodiac: Aries

Abilities/Talents: Hacking locks/omni-tools/security; Planning & Executing complex pranks, and (usually) Not Getting Caught; Sniping

Alignment: lawful / neutral / chaotic / good / neutral / evil / true

Religion: lapsed Catholic

Sins: envy / greed / gluttony / lust / pride / sloth / wrath

Virtues: charity / chastity / diligence / humility / justice / kindness / patience

Languages: She is familiar with just about every language in the galaxy, but mainly speaks English and Spanish

Family: Steven Hackett (father); Jason Shepard (uncle); Ryan, Sarah, Emma, and As-Yet Unnamed Baby Girl (cousin/brother-from-another-mother and family); Lara Shepard (mother; deceased); Zaeed Massani (paramour); Jeff “Joker” Moreau (best friend/brother-from-another-mother)

Friends: Normandy crew, past present and future

Sexuality: heterosexual / bisexual / pansexual / homosexual / demisexual / asexual / unsure / other

Relationship Status: single / partnered / married / widowed / open relationship / divorced / not ready for dating / it’s complicated

Libido: sex god / very high / high / average (present) / low / very low / non-existent

Build: slender / average / athletic / muscular / curvy / other (lanky)

Hair: white / blonde / brunette / (dark) red / black / other

Eyes: brown / (pale) blue / gray / (emerald) green / black / other

Skin: pale / fair (with freckles all over the place)/ olive / light brown / brown / dark / other

Height: 5'5"

Scars: Pre-Alchera: three scars on her face from when she and Ryan got into a fight as little kids and crashed through a glass coffee table (he’s got one on his arm from that incident); a gunshot scar in her abdomen and just below her collar bone from taking a hit meant for her father when she was 15; burns on her back from Akuze; Post-Alchera: the only one I remember for sure is a through-and-through gunshot scar on her right wrist from Aratoht

dogs or cats / birds or bugs / snakes or spiders / coffee or tea / ice cream or cake / fruits or vegetables / sandwich or soup / magic or melee / sword or bow / summer or winter / spring or autumn / past or future

Five songs that remind me of them:

My Church - Maren Morris

You’re My Best Friend - Queen

Killer Queen - Queen

T-Shirt - Thomas Rhett

Mad World - Tears for Fears

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The Merry Gentlemen (2024) Review

When Ashley a Broadway dancer finds herself out of her dream job right before Christmas she heads home to her small town and must help her parents save the nightclub they have owned for years. ⭐️⭐️ Continue reading The Merry Gentlemen (2024) Review

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Happy bisexual visibility day! Here are bisexual books out in September!

Books listed:

The Lovers by Rebekah Faubion

Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist by Ali K. Mulford and Elle Morrison

Love and Loathing in El Olvido by Sylvia San Sebastian

At the End of the River Styx by Michelle Kulwicki

We Will Devour The Night (The Essence of the Equinox, #2) by Camilla Andrew

The Hunter's Gambit by Ciel Pierlot

The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean by Ann Rose

The Age of Larkspur by Aleighsha Parke

She Slipped Through the Cracks by W. Payne Sillavan

The Glass Scientists, Vol. 2 by S.H. Cotugno

The Shadowbearer's Curse by Jasmyn Morning

Nightstrider (Nightstrider, 1) by Sophia Slade

No One Does It Like You by Katie Shepard

Imbued (Imbued, #1) by Helyna L. Clove

Ménage à Claws (Wayward Déine Chronicles Book 1) by Amelia Lascaux

Spells to Forget Us by Aislinn Brophy

Not The Fainting Kind (Not That Kind Of Dandy Book 2) by Will Soulsby-McCreath

Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner

The Gods Below (The Hollow Covenant, #1) by Andrea Stewart

Gravity’s Fire by C.J. Aralore

Hating a Witch by Brigid Hunt

Stuck in the Middle With You by Frances M. Thompson

You and I Collide by E. A. M. Trofimenkoff

The Kings of Dusk & Dawn (The Heir to Moondust, #4) by Lou Wilham

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in December 2024 🌈

Find these books and more here.

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

❓What was the last queer book you read?

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Sugar-Coated Kisses - Echo Lark 🧡 Christmas at Watson Memorial - Clara Ann Simons 💛 Warm-Blooded - J Greene 💚 It Takes Three To Tango - Jem Wendel 💙 The Black Curse - N.A. Moore 💜 Heavenly Tyrant - Xiran Jay Zhao ❤️ Encrypted Hearts - E.V. Bancroft 🧡 Dangerous Devotion - Robin Jo Margaret 💛 Sew in Love - Rhea Fox 💙 Saint - Chani Lynn Feener 💜 Her Ladyship's Christmas Companion - Theresa Meiningen 🌈 A Sky of Emerald Stars - A.K. Mulford

❤️ Inked in Blood and Memory - Allison Ivy 🧡 The Key - Jo Morgan Sloan 💛 Home Between Homes - Flynn Woods 💚 A Kiss for the Holidays - C.S. Autumn 💙 Loving the Linebacker - Amaya Knight 💜 Close to Home - Allisa Bahney ❤️ Christmas Shelter - Eva Gonzay & Julia C. Brown 🧡 This Isn't Everything You Are - J. Marie Rundquist 💛 Keep It in the Dark - Justin Arnold 💙 Santa & His Elf - Bink Cummings 💜 On the Subject of Kittens and Mittens - Katie Silverwings 🌈 Winter's Whisper - M Bonneau

❤️ Boyfriends - refrainbow 🧡 Innis Harbor - Patricia Evans 💛 A Complementary Connection - Eskay Kabba 💚 Point of Sighs - Melissa Scott 💙 Bind You by Blood - Shepard DiStasio 💜 The Resurrectionist - A. Rae Dunlap ❤️ Fractured Dreamer - A.K. Adler 🧡 The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou 💛 Becoming Disabled - Jan Doolittle Wilson 💙 A Caress of Water - Nico Silver 💜 How to Survive As a Villain 1 - Yi Yi Yi Yi 🌈 The Silent Concubine - Qiang Tang

❤️ Hadrian - Harlowe Savage 🧡 A Series of Rooms - A.J. Barlowe 💛 Inklings of Invisibility - S.L. Dove Cooper 💚 The Cobbler and His Elves - C.B. Wren 💙 A Nightclub for the Holidays - Arden Coutts 💜 Armor of Dusk - Jess Galaxie ❤️ Twisted Shadows - Allie Therin 🧡 A Deception of Courts - Ben Alderson 💛 Trial Run - Carsen Taite 💙 How to Flirt with a Witch - Tiana Warner 💜 Roughed Up - Kate Hawthorne 🌈 House of Crimson Curses - Ruby Roe

❤️ Sister Snake - Amanda Lee Koe 🧡 Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet - Samantha Allen 💛 The Rivals - Jane Pek 💚 Private Rites - Julia Armfield 💙 The Christmas Switch - Briar Prescott 💜 Ribbonwood - Ruby Landers ❤️ Shifting Lanes - Joanne Kwan 🧡 Twice-Spent Comet - Ziggy Schutz 💛 A Crush for the Holidays - E.L. Ough 💙 Resist - Lasairiona Lewis 💜 Free from Falling - E.L. Massey 🌈 The Legendary Master's Wife - Yin Ya

❤️ Tide Breaker's Curse - Ivy H. Marikova 🧡 Twist Her - Terri Ronald 💛 How to Fuck Like a Girl - Vera Blossom 💚 Dog Days of Christmas - Krystal Wolfgang & Kimberly Wolfgang 💙 Warmer, Colder - Alexia Onyx 💜 Salt in the Wind - Jenna Pine ❤️ What We Carry With Us - Joseff McKenneth Goodwin 🧡 Reinvention - Karol Yan 💛 Christmas Carols - Maxime Jaz 💙 I'm Not Your Pet - Fae Quin 💜 Something Extraordinary - Alexis Hall 🌈 I Might Be in Trouble - Daniel Aleman

❤️ Deck the Palms - Annabeth Albert 🧡 Don't Get It Twisted - Wren Taylor 💛 Ice & Sweet - Charlie Novak 💚 Speak EZ - Elle E. Ire 💙 The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish - Xue Shan Fei Hu 💜 Horns For Hell - Rafael Nicolás ❤️ Flamboyant Fictions - Ian Fleishman 🧡 Where the Heart Is - Jenni Simonis 💛 Sorry I Kissed Your Dad - Achilles King 💙 Merry Weihnachten - E.J. Noyes 💜 An Alpha for the Holidays - Emily Axon 🌈 The Blessed - Anne Shade

❤️ Our Sinful Love - Amy H. 🧡 Gambler's Conceit - Adara Wolf & R. Phoenix 💛 Fate and Flambe - Leena Metcalfe 💚 Figure You Out - Hannah Danielle & K.F. Starfell 💙 Amaranthine - Aricka Alexander 💜 Twisted Loyalties - Barbara J. Webb ❤️ Echoes of Us - Alex Cross 🧡 The Shadowbearer's Curse - Jasmyn Morning 💛 Too Many Beds - Various 💙 We Are the Beasts - Gigi Griffis 💜 Unspoken - N.N. Britt 🌈 Rainbows After Storms - Luka Kobachi

❤️ The Shutouts - Gabrielle Korn 🧡 Robin's Worlds - Rainie Oet & Mathias Ball 💛 What the Woods Took - Courtney Gould 💚 Rescue Me - N. Slater 💙 Seb & Ailin - Michele Notaro 💜 The International Love Story - Jonas Noelting ❤️ Waterlogged - Nance Sparks 🧡 The Guardians - Sheri Lewis Wohl 💛 The Changeling's Faerie Prince - K.D. Ellis 💙 Until at Dawn We Wake - Charlotte Dalwood 💜 How to Get a Life in Ten Dates - Jenny L. Howe 🌈 Hammajang Luck - Makana Yamamoto

❤️ The Rules of Royalty - Cale Dietrich 🧡 Tired of Waiting for Tomorrow - Allison K. Garcia 💛 One Last Run - Bryce Oakley 💚 Reckless Hearts - Jax Calder 💙 Christmissed - Blythe H. Warren 💜 How Could You - Ren Strapp ❤️ Blackened - Tyler Briggs 🧡 Gratification in Gluttony - Nik Knight 💛 The Mogul Meets Her Match - Julia Underwood 💙 How to Be Heard - Roxane Gay 💜 The Case of the Missing Maid - Rob Osler 🌈 Shades of Us - D.L. Sims

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No One Does It Like You by Katie Shepard ~ ARC Review

No One Does It Like You by Katie Shepard ~ ARC Review

NO ONE DOES IT LIKE YOU College sweethearts reunite to restore more than just an old inn In No One Does It Like You, author Katie Shepard tells the tale of two college sweethearts who married then divorced and haven’t seen each other in ten years when, during a harrowing rescue attempt, the lost Broadway actor hero leaves a last-minute voice message on the heroine’s phone. It takes Rosie a bit to…

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Katie Leung saying Caitlyn and Vi would settle down with a couple of dogs lead me to think about exactly what kind and the literal weeks long argument between them in choosing. Caitlyn wants something like a German Shepard or Lab and Vi wants a bulldog with the most scrunched up face on the planet. Cait wins that argument for about a week because a Shepard can help with her job before Vi walks in with a bulldog she found on the streets anyways.

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So I needed a couple of days to recover, but witnessing Merrily's closing show on Sunday was simply amazing and so special.

The entire week people had gasped when they heard I was seeing the closing show haha, and even when queueing at the theatre, there were multiple people still looking for tickets. I felt so fortunate to be holding on to one - as well as that I bought it before the Tony's because those prices skyrocketed.

As soon as the overture started, people started applauding loudly, and once more before the overture had ended. Everyone clearly felt lucky to be in the room where it happens 😉. Jonathan obviously got a loud applause as he entered the stage, and so did Daniel and Lindsay, Katie Rose and honestly all cast members (as they deserve!)

After Franklin Shepard Inc Daniel got a standing ovation that lasted minutes, and completely broke down in tears. Throughout the show there were many standing ovations, after which the cast had to clearly wait to continue. The show without speeches lasted about 3 hours because of that. Jonathan kept it together quite well throughout the show and was mostly in tears during It's a hit, for which someone at the stage door airdropped me those pictures above. And having to start singing " our time" Jonathan was clearly in tears and kept looking upstage at Daniel. When he finally got his words out, Daniel's voice kept cracking and so also he got emotional.

After the official bows everyone got on stage including Sonia and Maria Friedman, stage management, musicians, dressers etc. You can find the speeches online, they mostly focused on the authentic love in the company and how they were never going to experience something as good again. Both everyone on stage as everyone in the audience was in tears. Especially when Sonia Friedman told Maria Friedman that their parents who are no longer with them, would be so proud of her. And that the last thing Stephan Sondheim did was cast Daniel for this show. Jonathan, Daniel and Lindsay were holding on to each other tightly the entire time and Jon placed some kisses atop of Daniels head which just looked to cute. It was clear they were taking a lot of comfort in one another.

During the speeches they also mentioned that it wouldn't take to long to watch this company do this show again, but in a different format, alluding to the proshot.

The next day I walked by the Hudson theatre and they were already clearing it out. I filmed walking by, but it is mostly tech and a small glimpse of the inside of the theatre that you can see.

All in all, it was an incredible experience to have witnessed this closing show and have gotten to see it at the new york theatre workshop from only a couple of meters away! Obviously the show is amazing! And it is such a joy and privilege to get to see Jonathan exude his happy theatre kid-energy live on stage.

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I read something along this vein in a romcom recently, and I want to do a Lil shakarian drabble with it. ((It's probably not going in turn left, but maybe that heist fic I'm planning)) ((the book is you again by Katie Goldbeck btw)) please enjoy

The space between Shepard and Garrus was shrinking faster than her common sense and her ability to think and act in a productive manner. She noticed the tiny things about him she's only dared to peek at before-- the way his eyes caught the light overhead of them, the way his mandibles dripped down his jaw like water on a windowsill, the way his subvocals grumbled deep within his chest.

"You're getting awfully close there..." she managed to whisper out, because if she tried to talk any louder she was sure her voice would shake.

"I am."

"Are you..." her voice failed her. She cleared her throat. He was so close she could take a deep breath and touch his carapace. "Are you going to kiss me?"

"Yes."

"It's-- it's just going to be a quick kiss? A little peck? Something casual like that?"

"No."

"And we're just going to be friends afterwards, yeah?" Shepard asked desperately, trying to justify everything that her body was screaming at her to do. "Because that's a thing that friends do sometimes, right?"

"It's not."

"Can you say anything other than monosyllables?" She gave one last effort to stop what was about to happen; not because she didn't want it, of course, but because she was terrified on what the other side will look like.

Garrus just brought a hand up to her cheek, his thumb brushing over her lip. He looked intently at it, as if it was his very first time ever seeing a human before.

"Will you shut up already?" He half whispered, half laughed, half pleaded.

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ahem. them.