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May 2024
45m 37s

S3E10 DNFs and Three Ways?

Trigger Warning Romance: A Dark Romance Podcast
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Tori’s back! Join us for a very fun and tangent-ful conversation about what makes us DNF a book (with exceptions) and how to have a successful three-way…CHAT! Not too many triggers in this one, just brief mentions of tropes we generally dislike and why. Funnily enough it was hard for us to be negative so as per usual we ended up talking about book and tropes ... Show More
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