This IS my first rodeo, but I've done some reading so I'm feeling comfortable with the terminology and what to expect.

I didn't know that setting existed, and it took me a hot second to find it, so here's a cheat sheet for anyone else it helps!

Hiya! 👋💙

No, will go look it up!

Starting with the light stuff, I see! 😂

Same! Made many deep personal, professional, and publishing connections on the Old Place. It hurt to hit that button to delete it this week. Onwards and upwards!

Heyyy-oh 👋

Oh, wow, thank you! ❤️

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This one is a feed, not a pack. Great resource, check it out:

Great collection -- thank you!🙏

Very cool, thank you! ❤️

Great list! #litmag

You get me 😂

"I was going for Martin Luther King, Jr.... but I accidentally drew Steve Harvey." ~G (my then ten-year-old)

Oh, babe. Big same. And we know so many of the same people. This is tough. 💔

Are too gonna open. 😤

Done!

I forgot that one! Noting to self to find a copy again.

That's a lot for a seven/eight year old. Very formative, I'm sure.

I don't know much about that one, will check it out! It's amazing what art can do to us. 💔

Oh, this one wrecked me ❤️

Wait, WHAT?! 😳
Are you guys serious?!

Heartbreaking, indeed. High school?

I'll go first: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Read it in school when I was 10, shortly after my childhood dog died.

Sobbed all through English class each of those days as it was read aloud. Later wrote the final chapter out longhand into a spiral notebook at home; sobbed a lot again.

What was the first book that broke your heart? 📚💙⏰

In 2019 I got a planner. How adorable, the illusion of control.

It's a unicorn with a pink hammer head

Android lets you combine two emoji. For some reason.

You’re supposed to *feel* a David Lynch work, not intellectually parse its meaning. The way you feel and are haunted by a dream - its meaning is irrelevant to experience of it.

okay but can we talk about how these are just the BEST names ever? 🥰