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Jul 2024
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#252 - Reading Confessions: I'm Reading ...

Ariel Bissett & Raeleen Lemay
About this episode

We're doing another Reading Confessions episode! In this one we have three Amy's who are all worried about very different bookish problems and Kelly who feels that her books are "so 2015"!


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