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Welcome to Book Teams.
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I'm joining the saucy southern mama that likes our fictional filthy.
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Join me each week as we celebrate the power of well-written smut.
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We explore new themes every month, and book titles are revealed before episodes are released.
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So read ahead and treat book teams like your own personal, slightly chaotic book club.
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Let's get spicy.
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Welcome to Book Tees.
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I'm your host, Jamie, and this is the podcast that celebrates the power of well-written smut.
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We are in our trophy season, y'all.
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I love sports ball, specifically football, honestly.
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And we've already made our draft, y'all.
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Okay, and I'm not featuring any hockey romances.
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Sorry.
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I love hockey romances.
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Do not get me wrong.
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However, they've kind of taken over the sports romance scene.
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They've had their moment.
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They are currently having their moment.
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So we're gonna try to feature some other sports.
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This week we're featuring rugby.
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Ah!
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Okay, I don't know a lot about rugby, to be totally fair.
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But you don't need to know a lot about rugby to enjoy this book.
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We are talking Hooker and Hermit by Penny Reed and LH Cosway.
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It is a joint, jointly written book, and it is book one in the rugby series.
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Let's get into it.
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And as a reminder, this podcast does contain spoilers.
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I will spoil the whole book.
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So if you've not read this book and you don't want to be spoiled, you might want to pause, read the book, and come back.
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This book is not found on Kindle Unlimited, but I was able to get it on Libby really, really easily.
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So if you have Libby and you want to read it, but you don't want to buy it or, you know, have another subscription, go to Libby.
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It's awesome.
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Okay, for this week's draft, we have Ronan Fitzpatrick.
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Ronan Fitzpatrick is a hooker for the Irish rugby team.
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What's a hooker, you might ask?
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Well, Annie said it best.
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Annie is our FMC, and she wanted you to know this is Annie.
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I'm throwing in a quote right now because it's too perfect.
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And by hooker, I don't mean prostitute.
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Hooker is a position, a very pivotal position on the rugby field.
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Based on my very quick research, it appeared to be the rugby equivalent of an American football team's quarterback.
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Well, I know what a quarterback is, so perfect.
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He is essentially the quarterback of rugby.
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He is a hooker.
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And he beat up his own teammate after his teammate had sex with Ronan's fiance.
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So Ronan was engaged to this lady named Rona, and she was apparently very promiscuous and cheated on him multiple times, but she crossed the line by cheating with one of his teammates.
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He beat the crap out of the guy and ended up getting tagged as the bad boy of rugby.
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And he needs to have his PR image cleaned up.
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Let's top Annie Cottrell.
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Annie is an hourglass-shaped hermit.
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Okay.
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She's always wearing these big clothes that are brown or black or gray, trying to doll her apparent beauty.
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She has this beautiful heart-shaped face, so she doesn't wear makeup because she doesn't want to enhance it.
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She is reclusive.
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She is incredibly introverted.
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Too much attention really flusters her.
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Girl, I get it.
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She works as a social media expert at the PR firm Davidson Croft Media.
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So you're kind of already putting together what's going to happen, right?
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But there's something else that Annie does.
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She has a side gig as a very famous anonymous blogger called the Social Media Lite.
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And as the social media light, she blogs about celebrities.
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She takes pictures out in the wild.
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She lives in New York.
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So it's very easy to do because I think the PR firm is located in Manhattan.
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So there's celebrities all over, right?
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In New York.
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So she takes pictures of them, features them on her blog, and then makes fun of them, essentially.
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Makes fun of their outfits, makes fun of their attitudes, you know, things like that.
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She won't pick on weight or anything like that.
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So she's not picking apart those things.
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She's picking apart like what you why you got that ugly jacket on, essentially, I guess.
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One example is there was a basketball player, I think.
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Doesn't matter, but there was a a celebrity who was advocating for everyone to contribute or donate to this charity, which is great.
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But then he turns around and he spends like millions or he spends an obscene amount of money on a car or a grill or something like that.
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And so she was like, why don't you contribute that amount of money that you just spent on your vehicle to this charity that you're you're pushing us all to donate to instead of just asking for the common working people who can't afford that sort of thing to donate to it?
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Why don't you put your money where your mouth is, essentially?
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So that's the kind of stuff she features on her blog, and it's very popular, and nobody knows who runs it.
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And she puts it like I can be witty, I can put myself out there because it's anonymous.
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I am very flustered around people.
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She has social anxiety, she is incredibly introverted.
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So she's like, I can actually say what I'm thinking and be bold, and it's not gonna come back to me.
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It's it takes the pressure off.
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So she gets to be her true self as a social media light.
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At least that's what she says.
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Well, she happens to see Ronan Fitzpatrick, because he had just moved to New York.
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She sees him in a coffee shop.
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She's not sure who he is, but she knows he's famous because there are chicks around trying to flirt with him and ask for his autograph.
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And honestly, she says he looks like Colin Farrell.
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She look he looks like a buffer Colin Farrell, but his outfit is atrocious.
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It's some workout outfit what's all spandex, and you can see all his business, which she's like, okay, to my delight.
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But he's walking around with toe shoes and spandex outfit, and it's just, she's like, it's ridiculous.
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And the only reason he's pulling it off is because he's handsome and looks like Colin Farrell.
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That's the only reason he's pulling it off.
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Otherwise, it would just be a mess all over the place.
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But the man's sexy, so she posts this blog, and Ronan's dealing with a lot, okay?
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He and his fiancee just broke up.
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He didn't like her that much anyway, but he'd known her for a long time.
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Now he's mad at his teammate.
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He got kicked off a team, or he got suspended until his PR image can be cleaned up.
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So now he's moved from Dublin to oh, he's Irish, and you know I like that.
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You know I like that.
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He moved from Dublin to New York, and so he's not knowing a lot of people there, and he's just kind of like, he's got a got a lot going on.
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So when he sees this blog, he gets pissed.
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And most people, when they see the blog, it's like, okay, I've been featured on the social media like, even if she's teasing me, it's all in good fun, and she's usually highlighting a charity or something.
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So it's always kind of like a yay to be on it.
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But he goes the complete opposite direction.
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He gets angry and he sends her an email that's essentially like, you're a coward saying stuff anonymously, you're probably ugly, and that's why you're picking on other people, you're shallow, you need to just go get laid.
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I mean, that's the kind of stuff that he messaged her.
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And she responds with like, okay, you need to calm down.
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It's all in good fun.
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You know, here, you know, gives him some PR advice as the social media like.
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And that starts this like weird friendship where he's like, oh, this person who I don't know is being real with me.
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And so he's emailing this person.
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Well, he goes to the PR firm that he's supposed to go to to clean up his image so he can get back on the team.
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And he doesn't want to participate until he goes to storm off and he happens to glimpse Annie sitting in the break room eating an eclair.
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And she's eating an eclair because she had just read his first response being mean to her blog, and she got flustered and she's eating her feelings.
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And so she went out and got an eclair, and she's like, I need to calm down because one, I'm out of my house, and she doesn't like that.
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It was one of her office days, which she doesn't have many.
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She gets to work from home for the most part, but occasionally she has to come in.
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And so she came in that day, and then she read that, and she's all flustered.
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So she went to her favorite bakery and got a claire.
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And girl, I get it, okay?
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I mean, I really felt connected to Annie on multiple levels, but he sees her and he's instantly attracted.
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He's like, that body, even though she's hiding under that ugly outfit, she is freaking like curvaceous, beautiful face.
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He's he likes that she's kind of timid and he it's instant attraction.
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And he is like very Ford, very flirty.
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Like he's saying all kinds of like sexual innuendos and sassy stuff.
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And yeah, so he tells the uh her boss, I'm not participating in this PR shit unless that chick is on my case.
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Like she has to be assigned to me.
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I want her as my primary contact.
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And her boss is like, well, that's actually a great idea.
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She's one of our smartest, best social media experts.
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She would be absolutely perfect to help with your case.
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She'll teach you all about Twitter and get you a really good, clean image out there.
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She's perfect to be on your case anyway.
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And if that's what it's going to take to get you to work, well, we probably would have had her consulting on your case anyway.
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So she gets assigned to him, and he is a very, very flirty and he says some stuff.
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And it's it's like sexual harassment, okay?
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It's not like it.
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It is full-blown sexual harassment.
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This is the workplace.
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This is someone you're supposed to be working with.
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She has no choice but to work with him.
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And then he is like, he even corners her, like traps her in an elevator, gets in an elevator with her, sees that she's kind of flustered about it, hits the emergency stop, and then kisses her without her permission.
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Sir, sir, that is sexual harassment.
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What are you doing?
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We're supposed to like you.
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And because it's a book, and we get her viewpoint as well.
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It's a dual viewpoint book.
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We understand that she finds it, you're like, she's flustered because he's so hot and he's so forward.
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And oh my god, why does he even see me?
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Because I'm trying to hide and not draw attention.
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But he's uh so she's flustered because he's so sexy and she likes him.
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But if we're gonna put this in the real world, he doesn't fucking know for sure.
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He can guess.
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But some men are so pompous and so conceited that they think any woman who is saying no means yes.
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So that I did not like, but um, it works in the context of this is a romance novel, this is a book.
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Anyway, so they have to spend a lot of time together now, and he really goes for it.
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He's like emailing her because she doesn't like answering her phone, and then he's like trying to get them to have dinners together and go on dates together to work, and he takes every opportunity he sees her to push this agenda of I like you.
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I want you.
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We're going to end up having sex.
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We're gonna end up together.
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Just get used to the idea.
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But she's starting to like him because she's been spending a lot of time with him.
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She's been chatting with him, she's been finding out he's actually a really nice guy.
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Yes, he's flirty, but he doesn't, it's all in good fun, essentially.
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It's his personality.
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Yes, he's a flirt, but he is not being untoward.
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And also, well, he is being a bit untoward, but he's not being malicious, I guess.
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And also, she's also talking to him as the social media light because they're keeping up that correspondence where he's like, man, this is what was going on.
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So yeah, that's why I kind of freaked out and said stuff to you.
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I do apologize.
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You're right.
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I need to chill out.
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In fact, this is what's going on.
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And hey, there's this chick Annie that I really like.
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I think she's cool.
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And so he's not knowing that the social media light is Annie, he is talking and asking advice of the social media light, and they are having banter and they are forming a kind of weird anonymous friendship.
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Then his ex Brona comes out and accuses him of assault, of physical assault, saying he beat her up and all this stuff, and she puts it out there.
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So now this is a PR crisis, right?
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And she, meaning Annie, knew about this before it came out.
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Like she found out, and she immediately was like, he didn't do it because I know him now.
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I need to do something to help.
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So she shows up in the office without being asked.
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She's already on the case, like finding out who did it and doing all this stuff.
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She is like already working in the office on the case, forgot to eat dinner, or forgot to eat breakfast because it's early in the morning.
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He shows up all frazzled.
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He's about to lose it.
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And so she is like, let's go to breakfast.
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Let's get out of here.
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Go.
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We're not having the meeting yet.
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We're leave.
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Do not make it worse.
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Well, while they're out at breakfast, he ends up kissing her, right?
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And it gets videoed or pictures are taken by the paparazzi, and it gets put out in the media that, oh my God, he's got a new girlfriend, and oh my god, it's Amy, it's Annie Cottrell, the, you know, or they don't know who she is, but they find out who she is.
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I don't know.
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Anyway, she's just a normal person, and ah, he's dating a regular girl, and it's like out there, and everyone's like, oh, about it.
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Like, it's such a good thing.
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And so they get back to the office and they walk in, and everyone's like, We saw that, and you're brilliant, Annie.
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You're brilliant.
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We were just talking about how he needed to get a girlfriend that is serious but beautiful, and you know, that can really clean his image up, and you are perfect.
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You're brilliant.
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I wish you would have talked to us about your plan before enacting it, but it's fine because it's brilliant.
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We sign off, it works.
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So now she's his fake girlfriend, which he's thrilled about.
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He wants her to be his real girlfriend anyway.
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So now he is going to use this to his full advantage.
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Now they're fake dating.
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He is very forward, like I keep saying, but god, he really is.
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She's nervous because now they're having to go out and they're spending time together and they're getting flirty and they keep end up making out.
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And he is just like, I want to bring you on a real date.
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I really like you.
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You know, everyone thinks we're dating anyway.
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Why don't we just do it for real?
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Or you just at least let me take you out on a date and give me a chance.
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I mean, here's the thing: she's got issues.
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She's really nervous because she has a very sad backstory.
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Her mother abandoned her when she was six.
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And so she grew up in the foster care system and was almost adopted once, but then they got pregnant, and so they they abandoned her too or gave her back.
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And so she keeps to herself and is reclusive because she is so terrified of being abandoned again.
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She does not want to trust or love anybody else because all she's known is being left.
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So she doesn't want to like him.
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She doesn't want to let him in.
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She doesn't want to know about him because he's this big time sexy, rich celebrity guy.
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She's like, it's inevitable that he's gonna get bored with me.
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I don't even like to go out and do all a bunch of stuff.
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I get nervous around people.
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He is incredibly social.
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He's going to get bored with me eventually.
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I am a boring person.
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I just like my peppermint tea and whatever else.
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And so she's terrified.
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So she keeps pushing him away, even though she makes it known, like, yes, I like you back.
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Yes, I find you attractive, but I'm pushing you away.
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I'm scared.
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I can't get emotionally entangled.
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It's driving him nuts, though.
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She does tell him her backstory and he does understand, but she still keeps pushing him away because she's scared to let anybody in.
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While all this is going on, he is still having email conversations with the social media light asking the social media light their opinion or their advice on winning Annie over because he really, really likes her and he's liking her more and more, but she keeps pushing him away and blah, blah, blah.
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Then he accidentally finds out that Annie is the social media light.
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She gets flustered and leaves her phone in the car on one of their dates or one of their media outings.
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They're coming back from something, and she leaves the phone in the car.
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And he goes to grab it to bring it to her, and uh, Dean comes through.
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It's a Twitter post or a Twitter message, and it's to the handle of the social media light.
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He's like, Oh my god.
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And he is pissed at first, but then he uses it as a tool, basically, to talk to her.
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He uses it to his advantage.
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One of the ways he uses it to his advantage is they're hanging out, right?
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He falls in love with her.
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They haven't even had sex yet, but they've made out, they've done a few things like that.
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He refuses to have sex with her until she is like, Yes, I'm yours.
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I'm your girlfriend.
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I'm, you know, whatever.
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Until she submits to him like that, he doesn't want to have sex with her.
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I think he's using it as like a little bit of control because it turns out Ronan's really into control in the bedroom.
00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:20.079
There's a lot of light BDSM when the spice actually happens.
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They make a really big deal of it, but it's not even like, I mean, there's just restraints and like a spreader bar.
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It's not even like full-flown BDSM.
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Like he's not, he's not whipping her or nothing.
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There's a little spanking, but it's very light BDSM.
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But it's like made into this big thing.
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He mostly likes the submission aspect, being the one in charge, having his partner tied up, and so he can kind of do what he wants.
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But I mean, it's really made into a bigger deal.
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But that's why he likes her so much.
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They're so compatible.
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She is naturally uh like timid and submissive, easily falls into that role for him, and he loves it.
00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:12.160
But he's refusing to have sex with her until she admits that she's his.
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But he does fall in love with her, just her is a person, and he's like really into her.
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And so he messages the social media light, and he's like, knowing that it's Annie and tells the social media like, look, this is what's going on.
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I'm crazy in love with her, but she won't even be my girlfriend, and I don't know what to do.
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What if she never reciprocates?
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I mean, like, it's a very sweet message, knowing that he it's Annie who's gonna read it.
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But he's like, if I try to tell her this in person, it's just gonna freak her out and scare her.
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I can't even get her to be my girlfriend.
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I'm not gonna be able to be like, hey, by the way, I'm in love with you.
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She's gonna freak out.
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So this is his roundabout way of telling her, knowing that she is the social media light.
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She can get the information and hopefully be able to process it however she wants and not even have to respond.
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And so that's his plan.
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She does respond favorably and finally gives in to okay, we're together officially.
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You're my boyfriend.
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And then they have sex finally.
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The spice happens as we're like 60 something percent into the book.
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I mean, there is so much innuendo, so much dirty talk, so much of him like making comments.
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There's spice like that, all peppered throughout.
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But the actual sex doesn't happen until 60 something percent into the book, and it is very descriptive.
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It's hot, not gonna lie.
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Like I said, there's light BDSM.
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The first time they're in his very nice classic car, and he uses the seatbelts to tie her up or whatever.
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She's into it.
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And his ex is disproven, by the way.
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Um, they ended up Pan her off just to get the picture.
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She had some pictures that she took of them having sex and her tied up.
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And he had a spreader bar on her and a collar on her, but the collar was her idea.
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He's not even into a collar.
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So it was kind of silly that she thought that that was gonna prove that he was physically abusive.
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She looks like a winning willing participant, even in the pictures, so it's stupid.
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So she only gets like 200,000 just so it doesn't get out there since they're trying to clean his image up, but it's not even that big of a deal.
00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:40.559
So now the ex is out of the picture and not a big deal.
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Annie realizes she's in love with Ronan, but she doesn't want to tell him yet because she's terrified.
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And at this point, she's like, I've been chatting with him as the social media light.
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If I'm in love with him, I'm gonna need to tell him that I'm the social media light, and he's gonna be mad.
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And what if he doesn't want to forgive me?
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And blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And so anyway, that's her hang up now.
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He already knows, and he's just waiting for her to tell him they are coming back from an event.
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And he's already, like, in the act of sex, told her that he loves her, right?
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So she knows she's not said it back, but she's acting like she loves him.
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So he's feeling good about it.
00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:29.599
Well, after this event, he's overcome with his love for her and he proposes marriage.
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It took her forever to for you to be her boyfriend, dude.
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He keeps pushing that envelope, right?
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Which is it's endearing, it's sweet, it's making him look very, very eager.
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He is so taken with her.
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But at the same time, you keep pushing that envelope.
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If you really loved her, man, you need to chill out just a touch.
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Be her boyfriend for at least a month before you decide that now you're gonna try to push for marriage.
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It blew my mind just a little bit.
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Like, calm your ass down, Ronan.
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Calm down a little bit, just chill a touch.
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She's like, Oh my God, I've got to tell them now.
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Because she wants to say yes.
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Well, they go into they're in Dublin, by the way, at this point because they had to go for an event.
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So they've been in Dublin for a little bit, and they go to their hotel room, and when they get there, someone had broken in.
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They find out really quick that it's one of the more aggressive paparazzi guys that broke in, but her laptop has been stolen.
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And now she has a full-fledged panic attack.
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And the full-fledged panic attack is not because she was doing work about other clients and their information.
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No, her panic attack is because her social media light shit is on there.
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And oh my God, she's gonna be outed.
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And so that's what she's freaking out about.
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And so to soothe her, he is like, Look, babe, I know you're the social media light.
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I'm not angry about it.
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I will help you figure this out.
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I'm with you no matter what.
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I mean, it's fine.
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I've already figured out that's who you are.
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Well, she goes into a tailspin and is like, you fucking lied to me.
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And she like freaks out, way overreacts instead of being like, Oh my god, you know?
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Did you tell anyone like it's just between us?
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No, she takes it as I can't believe anyone knows.
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It's now tainted and ruined to me.
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I'm mad at you.
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You you lied, you used my, you know, like anyway, she's freaking out.
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She breaks up with him and then takes a quick flight back to New York without telling him, by the way.
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He leaves to give her space for the night, like she asked, and she books it out of there and goes to New York.
00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:05.279
Well, this breaks his heart because he was like, I just told you not to leave me.
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Like, that was my only I'm giving you all the space you want.
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But I when you agreed to be my girlfriend, I said, and you you gotta be up front of me.
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You can't run away.
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Tell talk to me when if you get upset, because I know your first instinct is to is flight.
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You can't do that to me.
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That will break my heart.
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You need to actually talk to me when you're upset about something.
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And then what does she do?
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The first big issue they have, she fucking bolts.
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And he's like, was the one thing I asked.
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I said, You could take your time, you could say whatever you want.
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I'm gonna forgive most things because I love you, but please just don't do that to me.
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I won't abandon you.
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Please don't abandon me.
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I feel like that's not a bad big ask, man.
00:26:50.720 --> 00:27:04.960
So the next time she sees him is for a social event, and they've already talked about like her PR people have already been like, you're off the case, you're still on fake girlfriend duty, but we're gonna phase you out and get him a new fake girlfriend.
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Next time she sees him at the social event, he is treating her coolly, like he is keeping distant, he is doing only what is required, and she realizes what a mistake she's made.
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She's like, Oh my god, I'm in love with him.
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I can't believe I did this, I've ruined it, blah, blah, blah.
00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:28.480
So she realizes she needs to make an effort.
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He's been making all the moves, all the efforts.
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She's being scared and hiding in the shadows.
00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:51.200
So to show how much she loves him and to make this grand gesture, she outs herself as a social media light and uses a social media light blog post to talk about how much she loves him and how she ruined it.
00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:54.000
And by the way, this is Annie Cottrell.
00:27:54.400 --> 00:28:05.359
And he sees the post, is ecstatic, is like, oh my God, she chose me, and runs off to see her.
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And yes, they're together happily ever after.
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Yay! They end up moving to Ireland.
00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:13.599
There's an epilogue, they end up moving to Ireland.
00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:17.680
But Ronan's very cute sister, who is featured in the second book, by the way.
00:28:17.839 --> 00:28:33.759
Lucy's in the second book uh of the series, but she moves to New York and kind of subleases Annie's apartment and works for Annie by taking pictures of celebrities for Annie to keep up her blog.
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There's zero repercussions about her coming out as the social media light.
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Everyone's just cool with it.
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And they're like, oh, okay, nobody has anything negative to say that we know of.
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They get married and they're happily ever after.
00:28:51.200 --> 00:29:02.079
Oh, and she quits her job at the PR firm, but she stays on as a consultant so that she can choose whatever clients and work exclusively from home in Ireland.
00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:03.440
Very cute book.
00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:05.039
It was so funny.
00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:06.559
Um, it was funny.
00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:07.839
I loved Ronan.
00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:18.160
I even though he was just pushy and overly forward and kind of sexually harassing, I still loved Ronan.
00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:21.599
I loved his his humor, his wit.
00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:25.200
I thought they did really, really well with the dialogue.
00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:26.640
It was funny.
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:29.440
To be fair, I really love Penny Reed's writing.
00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:31.680
I she's usually just hilarious.
00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:35.279
I her her whole beards book was was great.
00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:37.599
Like there's a bunch of them.
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And uh, they're all hilarious.
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:42.000
I I really like her wit.
00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:43.200
I like her humor.
00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:46.640
Even though there are some problematic pieces in this book.
00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:51.200
And Annie, I wanted to smack her even when I understood her.
00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:53.759
I'm giving this book five four stars.
00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:55.119
I'm giving it four stars.
00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:56.240
I really enjoyed it.
00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:57.519
I thought it was funny.
00:29:57.680 --> 00:29:59.599
This is a reread for me.
00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:10.640
I still really liked it the second time I read it, even though I didn't like it as much because there were some pieces that I just, I don't know, I glossed over.
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:17.599
I didn't remember how pushy he was and how he kept pushing, even when she was like, no, leave me alone.
00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:18.400
What are you doing?
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:19.200
Stop.
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I still really, I mean, I still really liked it.
00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:24.160
I'm giving the spice a 3.5.
00:30:24.480 --> 00:30:31.839
It was spicy, it was very explicit and described a lot of things.
00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:40.559
And even though it kept talking about how kinky Ronan is, he just likes to tie her up.
00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:42.319
That's it.
00:30:43.119 --> 00:30:45.279
He's just tying her up and teasing her a bit.
00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:47.279
And I don't know why that's so kinky.
00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:50.400
I mean, it's it's hot, it's sexy.
00:30:50.640 --> 00:31:01.440
I'm not mad about a spreader bar either, but I just I don't know why it was like, oh, he is so dirty, he is so kinky, he is so out there.
00:31:01.599 --> 00:31:04.319
And even his ex was like, he's sick with what he likes.
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:12.960
And I'm like, that's sick, and there's a lot more twisted kinks than just liking to handcuff your partner, okay?
00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:18.880
Giving it a 3.5 because I don't think it was as kinky as what it it tried to make itself out to be.
00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:31.440
But it was really sexy, it was really hot, it was really explicit, and there was plenty of it after we finally got over that 60-something when they're just teasing each other when he finally went for it.
00:31:31.599 --> 00:31:35.519
I mean, the whole second half is a lot of sex.
00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:37.599
Again, not mad about it.
00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:39.039
Let's get to quotes.
00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:45.599
Okay, most of my quotes are coming from Ronan because I loved his personality.
00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:47.359
I thought he was hilarious.
00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:55.039
He had a lot of great things to say, and so, and plus with Annie, she's so fucking introverted, we don't get a whole lot from her.
00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:57.119
All right, here's Ronan.
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:03.680
Mullets and questionably tight pants aside, the best music in the world was 80s rock.
00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:06.240
And I had no qualms about admitting it.
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:09.200
Fuck yes, Ronan, you are so right, sir.
00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:10.720
I am an 80s baby.
00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:12.240
I love some 80s rock.
00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:13.440
Hello, Bon Jovi.
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:17.440
Hello, Aerosmith, hey Van Halen, hey.
00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:20.079
I fucking love 80s rock.
00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:26.960
And it is still the most fun, most energetic, especially if you're trying to work out or something or you're getting pumped about stuff.
00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:29.279
Dude, throw on some some hair metal.
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:30.319
It is fucking great.
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:31.759
So hello, Ronan.
00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:32.319
Thank you.
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:33.920
Thank you for the acknowledgement.
00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:35.519
I love it too.
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:40.160
All right, this is Ronan talking to Annie about why he likes her.
00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:41.920
You're very real, Annie.
00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:43.839
I like that you're without pretense.
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:48.400
I like that you're both smart and sexy as hell without a whole lot of fuss.
00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:50.240
I like who you are.
00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:52.160
Yeah, she doesn't have a whole lot of fuss.
00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:53.759
She doesn't wear a lot of makeup.
00:32:54.000 --> 00:33:01.359
She tries to wear clothes that hide her incredibly vivacious hourglass figure.
00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:08.319
He talks about her rounded hips and her big boobs and how she still has a small waist.
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:14.480
I mean, this chick is hourglass for sure, and he loves it.
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:16.640
This one's so funny.
00:33:16.799 --> 00:33:18.880
I had to include this quote.
00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:24.559
Ronan decides he's going to try to woo Annie by sending her a ton of gifts.
00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:35.039
Like every day he's sending her like a whole, like a bunch of tea because she likes tea, a gorgeous Tiffany necklace, um, like all kinds of stuff.
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:45.920
Well, one day he sends an insane amount of flowers to fill her entire apartment up with different types of flowers because he doesn't know exactly what her favorite flower is.
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:47.680
And he includes this note.
00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:49.200
This is Ronan.
00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:52.799
Dearest Annie, roses are red, violets are blue.
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:55.440
I'm using my hand, but I'm thinking of you.
00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:56.400
Ronan.
00:33:56.559 --> 00:33:56.960
P.S.
00:33:57.279 --> 00:34:00.480
Just to clarify, I'm using my hand to write this note.
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:02.720
Get your mind out of the gutter.
00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:06.400
I like when you listen to the audiobook.
00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:15.920
It the actor does have a nice, very sexy Irish accent, which makes most of which is probably why I like a lot of what Ronin this time.
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I didn't listen to the audiobook.
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I read it this time, but before.
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And maybe that's why I skipped over all of the questionable things Ronan was doing, because you could get away with a lot if you have a sexy Irish accent, at least with me.
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So all right, this one's a little sad.
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This is Ronan after she she runs off, right?
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And then she's like, try to just talk to him before she comes with up with her grand gesture idea.
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And he's like, No.
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So this is Ronan.
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There are some things, some people worth fighting for.
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You would be worth fighting for.
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You would, if you wanted me like I, like I want you.
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Oh, it's so sad.
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Because he had done nothing but put himself out there and try and try and put himself out there repeatedly and just constantly, he's giving her affirmations.
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He is giving her, you know, everything he can.
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He is almost too much.
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He is just like, just constantly just giving her himself.
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And he has to fight for every scrap of anything from Annie.
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And then the first fight they have, she jets off.
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And so he was just like shattered about it.
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This is Ronan's sweet declaration of love that he sent to the social media.
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And the fact of the matter is, I'm in love with her, heartbreakingly, soul-wrenchingly, earth-shatteringly in love with her.
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It's nothing like I've ever felt before.
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And I need her to love me back more than I need to take my next breath.
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I can't imagine a greater agony than this big, pulsing, fierce love I have for her being unreciprocated.
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I would rather take a hundred blows to the head out on the field, suffer a thousand concussions than not have her beside me for the rest of my life.
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My God.
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And this is after he reads her blog, outing herself as a social media light, admitting how much she loves him, admitting that she wants to spend her life with him.
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Ronan's like jumped up.
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He went from being depressed because he lost his lady love to he is just like, yeah.
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And so is Ronan.
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Yeah, that's right.
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I just victory punched butt naked in the shower.
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Imagine this outgoing, goofy, huge, muscular athlete who likes 80s hair metal just in the shower, like, yeah.
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It was so like breakfast club coated at the end.
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He's like, yeah, I got her.
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I loved it.
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I thought it was great.
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It was a nice ending.
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It was a very funny book.
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Let's get on to casting, y'all.
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And I am so excited.
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This view are in our trophy season.
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We are talking sporty book boyfriends.
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Fuck yes.
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I thought it would be fun for all of my MMCs this season, this month, if I cast actual male athletes from the featured sport.
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So I got to dive deep into rugby players.
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Y'all, it's a hard job, but someone had to do it, right?
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I needed to check all the thighs out.
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Rugby players have some insane legs, though.
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I mean, my God.
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With that in mind, Ronan, our book boyfriend of the week, is going to be played by Tom Evans.
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Tom Evans is a very attractive Scottish rugby player.
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He last played on the wing for Glasgow Warriors in the Celtic League.
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And he was retired after a neck injury.
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He's gorgeous and a rugby player, and he totally fits Ronan.
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And I was, yeah, it was an easy cast after I looked through so many.
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I was like, he was the only one that I was like, fuck yeah, that's Ronan.
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That's perfect.
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Does not look like Colin Farrell per se, but there's enough of a, yeah, it works.
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I love, I love it.
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For Annie, I needed someone that was curvaceous, beautiful, flawless, pale skin, someone who just could be an awkward introvert.
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There's only one person that has that type of voluptuous body, that type of energy.
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That's right.
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I'm going cat dennings, y'all.
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Fuck yes, I am.
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She's in Two Broke Girls.
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She's also Darcy, Darcy Lewis in the all the Thor movies.
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She has got the body.
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She has that beauty that's kind of hard to like, because she plays some goofy ass characters that I mean, in two broke girls, she's wearing that ugly waitress dress for most of the shots.
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And you can still tell that the woman is seriously insane looking.
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Like she is so beautiful that even when she downplays her beauty, she's still eye-catching.
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So there was really nobody else I could pick to play Annie.
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This casting's fucking perfect.
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I mean, my God, love it.
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This one, this one was a solid hit, really great opener for our series.
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And I can't wait to get to the next one.
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Welcome to Book Teams.
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I'm joining the saucy southern mama that likes our fictional filthy.
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Join me each week as we celebrate the power of well-written smut.
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We explore new themes every month, and book titles are revealed before episodes are released.
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So read ahead and treat book teams like your own personal, slightly chaotic book club.
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Let's get spicy.
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Welcome to Book Tees.
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I'm your host, Jamie, and this is the podcast that celebrates the power of well-written smut.
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We are in our trophy season, y'all.
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I love sports ball, specifically football, honestly.
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And we've already made our draft, y'all.
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Okay, and I'm not featuring any hockey romances.
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Sorry.
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I love hockey romances.
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Do not get me wrong.
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However, they've kind of taken over the sports romance scene.
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They've had their moment.
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They are currently having their moment.
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So we're gonna try to feature some other sports.
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This week we're featuring rugby.
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Ah!
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Okay, I don't know a lot about rugby, to be totally fair.
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But you don't need to know a lot about rugby to enjoy this book.
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We are talking Hooker and Hermit by Penny Reed and LH Cosway.
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It is a joint, jointly written book, and it is book one in the rugby series.
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Let's get into it.
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And as a reminder, this podcast does contain spoilers.
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I will spoil the whole book.
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So if you've not read this book and you don't want to be spoiled, you might want to pause, read the book, and come back.
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This book is not found on Kindle Unlimited, but I was able to get it on Libby really, really easily.
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So if you have Libby and you want to read it, but you don't want to buy it or, you know, have another subscription, go to Libby.
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It's awesome.
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Okay, for this week's draft, we have Ronan Fitzpatrick.
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Ronan Fitzpatrick is a hooker for the Irish rugby team.
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What's a hooker, you might ask?
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Well, Annie said it best.
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Annie is our FMC, and she wanted you to know this is Annie.
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I'm throwing in a quote right now because it's too perfect.
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And by hooker, I don't mean prostitute.
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Hooker is a position, a very pivotal position on the rugby field.
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Based on my very quick research, it appeared to be the rugby equivalent of an American football team's quarterback.
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Well, I know what a quarterback is, so perfect.
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He is essentially the quarterback of rugby.
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He is a hooker.
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And he beat up his own teammate after his teammate had sex with Ronan's fiance.
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So Ronan was engaged to this lady named Rona, and she was apparently very promiscuous and cheated on him multiple times, but she crossed the line by cheating with one of his teammates.
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He beat the crap out of the guy and ended up getting tagged as the bad boy of rugby.
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And he needs to have his PR image cleaned up.
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Let's top Annie Cottrell.
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Annie is an hourglass-shaped hermit.
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Okay.
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She's always wearing these big clothes that are brown or black or gray, trying to doll her apparent beauty.
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She has this beautiful heart-shaped face, so she doesn't wear makeup because she doesn't want to enhance it.
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She is reclusive.
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She is incredibly introverted.
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Too much attention really flusters her.
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Girl, I get it.
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She works as a social media expert at the PR firm Davidson Croft Media.
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So you're kind of already putting together what's going to happen, right?
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But there's something else that Annie does.
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She has a side gig as a very famous anonymous blogger called the Social Media Lite.
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And as the social media light, she blogs about celebrities.
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She takes pictures out in the wild.
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She lives in New York.
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So it's very easy to do because I think the PR firm is located in Manhattan.
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So there's celebrities all over, right?
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In New York.
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So she takes pictures of them, features them on her blog, and then makes fun of them, essentially.
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Makes fun of their outfits, makes fun of their attitudes, you know, things like that.
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She won't pick on weight or anything like that.
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So she's not picking apart those things.
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She's picking apart like what you why you got that ugly jacket on, essentially, I guess.
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One example is there was a basketball player, I think.
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Doesn't matter, but there was a a celebrity who was advocating for everyone to contribute or donate to this charity, which is great.
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But then he turns around and he spends like millions or he spends an obscene amount of money on a car or a grill or something like that.
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And so she was like, why don't you contribute that amount of money that you just spent on your vehicle to this charity that you're you're pushing us all to donate to instead of just asking for the common working people who can't afford that sort of thing to donate to it?
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Why don't you put your money where your mouth is, essentially?
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So that's the kind of stuff she features on her blog, and it's very popular, and nobody knows who runs it.
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And she puts it like I can be witty, I can put myself out there because it's anonymous.
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I am very flustered around people.
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She has social anxiety, she is incredibly introverted.
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So she's like, I can actually say what I'm thinking and be bold, and it's not gonna come back to me.
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It's it takes the pressure off.
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So she gets to be her true self as a social media light.
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At least that's what she says.
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Well, she happens to see Ronan Fitzpatrick, because he had just moved to New York.
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She sees him in a coffee shop.
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She's not sure who he is, but she knows he's famous because there are chicks around trying to flirt with him and ask for his autograph.
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And honestly, she says he looks like Colin Farrell.
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She look he looks like a buffer Colin Farrell, but his outfit is atrocious.
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It's some workout outfit what's all spandex, and you can see all his business, which she's like, okay, to my delight.
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But he's walking around with toe shoes and spandex outfit, and it's just, she's like, it's ridiculous.
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And the only reason he's pulling it off is because he's handsome and looks like Colin Farrell.
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That's the only reason he's pulling it off.
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Otherwise, it would just be a mess all over the place.
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But the man's sexy, so she posts this blog, and Ronan's dealing with a lot, okay?
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He and his fiancee just broke up.
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He didn't like her that much anyway, but he'd known her for a long time.
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Now he's mad at his teammate.
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He got kicked off a team, or he got suspended until his PR image can be cleaned up.
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So now he's moved from Dublin to oh, he's Irish, and you know I like that.
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You know I like that.
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He moved from Dublin to New York, and so he's not knowing a lot of people there, and he's just kind of like, he's got a got a lot going on.
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So when he sees this blog, he gets pissed.
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And most people, when they see the blog, it's like, okay, I've been featured on the social media like, even if she's teasing me, it's all in good fun, and she's usually highlighting a charity or something.
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So it's always kind of like a yay to be on it.
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But he goes the complete opposite direction.
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He gets angry and he sends her an email that's essentially like, you're a coward saying stuff anonymously, you're probably ugly, and that's why you're picking on other people, you're shallow, you need to just go get laid.
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I mean, that's the kind of stuff that he messaged her.
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And she responds with like, okay, you need to calm down.
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It's all in good fun.
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You know, here, you know, gives him some PR advice as the social media like.
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And that starts this like weird friendship where he's like, oh, this person who I don't know is being real with me.
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And so he's emailing this person.
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Well, he goes to the PR firm that he's supposed to go to to clean up his image so he can get back on the team.
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And he doesn't want to participate until he goes to storm off and he happens to glimpse Annie sitting in the break room eating an eclair.
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And she's eating an eclair because she had just read his first response being mean to her blog, and she got flustered and she's eating her feelings.
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And so she went out and got an eclair, and she's like, I need to calm down because one, I'm out of my house, and she doesn't like that.
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It was one of her office days, which she doesn't have many.
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She gets to work from home for the most part, but occasionally she has to come in.
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And so she came in that day, and then she read that, and she's all flustered.
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So she went to her favorite bakery and got a claire.
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And girl, I get it, okay?
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I mean, I really felt connected to Annie on multiple levels, but he sees her and he's instantly attracted.
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He's like, that body, even though she's hiding under that ugly outfit, she is freaking like curvaceous, beautiful face.
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He's he likes that she's kind of timid and he it's instant attraction.
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And he is like very Ford, very flirty.
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Like he's saying all kinds of like sexual innuendos and sassy stuff.
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And yeah, so he tells the uh her boss, I'm not participating in this PR shit unless that chick is on my case.
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Like she has to be assigned to me.
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I want her as my primary contact.
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And her boss is like, well, that's actually a great idea.
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She's one of our smartest, best social media experts.
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She would be absolutely perfect to help with your case.
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She'll teach you all about Twitter and get you a really good, clean image out there.
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She's perfect to be on your case anyway.
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And if that's what it's going to take to get you to work, well, we probably would have had her consulting on your case anyway.
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So she gets assigned to him, and he is a very, very flirty and he says some stuff.
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And it's it's like sexual harassment, okay?
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It's not like it.
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It is full-blown sexual harassment.
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This is the workplace.
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This is someone you're supposed to be working with.
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She has no choice but to work with him.
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And then he is like, he even corners her, like traps her in an elevator, gets in an elevator with her, sees that she's kind of flustered about it, hits the emergency stop, and then kisses her without her permission.
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Sir, sir, that is sexual harassment.
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What are you doing?
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We're supposed to like you.
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And because it's a book, and we get her viewpoint as well.
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It's a dual viewpoint book.
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We understand that she finds it, you're like, she's flustered because he's so hot and he's so forward.
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And oh my god, why does he even see me?
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Because I'm trying to hide and not draw attention.
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But he's uh so she's flustered because he's so sexy and she likes him.
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But if we're gonna put this in the real world, he doesn't fucking know for sure.
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He can guess.
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But some men are so pompous and so conceited that they think any woman who is saying no means yes.
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So that I did not like, but um, it works in the context of this is a romance novel, this is a book.
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Anyway, so they have to spend a lot of time together now, and he really goes for it.
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He's like emailing her because she doesn't like answering her phone, and then he's like trying to get them to have dinners together and go on dates together to work, and he takes every opportunity he sees her to push this agenda of I like you.
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I want you.
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We're going to end up having sex.
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We're gonna end up together.
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Just get used to the idea.
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But she's starting to like him because she's been spending a lot of time with him.
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She's been chatting with him, she's been finding out he's actually a really nice guy.
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Yes, he's flirty, but he doesn't, it's all in good fun, essentially.
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It's his personality.
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Yes, he's a flirt, but he is not being untoward.
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And also, well, he is being a bit untoward, but he's not being malicious, I guess.
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And also, she's also talking to him as the social media light because they're keeping up that correspondence where he's like, man, this is what was going on.
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So yeah, that's why I kind of freaked out and said stuff to you.
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I do apologize.
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You're right.
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I need to chill out.
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In fact, this is what's going on.
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And hey, there's this chick Annie that I really like.
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I think she's cool.
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And so he's not knowing that the social media light is Annie, he is talking and asking advice of the social media light, and they are having banter and they are forming a kind of weird anonymous friendship.
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Then his ex Brona comes out and accuses him of assault, of physical assault, saying he beat her up and all this stuff, and she puts it out there.
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So now this is a PR crisis, right?
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And she, meaning Annie, knew about this before it came out.
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Like she found out, and she immediately was like, he didn't do it because I know him now.
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I need to do something to help.
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So she shows up in the office without being asked.
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She's already on the case, like finding out who did it and doing all this stuff.
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She is like already working in the office on the case, forgot to eat dinner, or forgot to eat breakfast because it's early in the morning.
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He shows up all frazzled.
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He's about to lose it.
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And so she is like, let's go to breakfast.
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Let's get out of here.
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Go.
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We're not having the meeting yet.
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We're leave.
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Do not make it worse.
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Well, while they're out at breakfast, he ends up kissing her, right?
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And it gets videoed or pictures are taken by the paparazzi, and it gets put out in the media that, oh my God, he's got a new girlfriend, and oh my god, it's Amy, it's Annie Cottrell, the, you know, or they don't know who she is, but they find out who she is.
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I don't know.
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Anyway, she's just a normal person, and ah, he's dating a regular girl, and it's like out there, and everyone's like, oh, about it.
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Like, it's such a good thing.
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And so they get back to the office and they walk in, and everyone's like, We saw that, and you're brilliant, Annie.
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You're brilliant.
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We were just talking about how he needed to get a girlfriend that is serious but beautiful, and you know, that can really clean his image up, and you are perfect.
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You're brilliant.
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I wish you would have talked to us about your plan before enacting it, but it's fine because it's brilliant.
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We sign off, it works.
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So now she's his fake girlfriend, which he's thrilled about.
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He wants her to be his real girlfriend anyway.
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So now he is going to use this to his full advantage.
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Now they're fake dating.
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He is very forward, like I keep saying, but god, he really is.
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She's nervous because now they're having to go out and they're spending time together and they're getting flirty and they keep end up making out.
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And he is just like, I want to bring you on a real date.
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I really like you.
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You know, everyone thinks we're dating anyway.
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Why don't we just do it for real?
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Or you just at least let me take you out on a date and give me a chance.
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I mean, here's the thing: she's got issues.
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She's really nervous because she has a very sad backstory.
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Her mother abandoned her when she was six.
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And so she grew up in the foster care system and was almost adopted once, but then they got pregnant, and so they they abandoned her too or gave her back.
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And so she keeps to herself and is reclusive because she is so terrified of being abandoned again.
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She does not want to trust or love anybody else because all she's known is being left.
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So she doesn't want to like him.
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She doesn't want to let him in.
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She doesn't want to know about him because he's this big time sexy, rich celebrity guy.
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She's like, it's inevitable that he's gonna get bored with me.
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I don't even like to go out and do all a bunch of stuff.
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I get nervous around people.
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He is incredibly social.
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He's going to get bored with me eventually.
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I am a boring person.
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I just like my peppermint tea and whatever else.
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And so she's terrified.
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So she keeps pushing him away, even though she makes it known, like, yes, I like you back.
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Yes, I find you attractive, but I'm pushing you away.
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I'm scared.
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I can't get emotionally entangled.
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It's driving him nuts, though.
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She does tell him her backstory and he does understand, but she still keeps pushing him away because she's scared to let anybody in.
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While all this is going on, he is still having email conversations with the social media light asking the social media light their opinion or their advice on winning Annie over because he really, really likes her and he's liking her more and more, but she keeps pushing him away and blah, blah, blah.
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Then he accidentally finds out that Annie is the social media light.
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She gets flustered and leaves her phone in the car on one of their dates or one of their media outings.
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They're coming back from something, and she leaves the phone in the car.
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And he goes to grab it to bring it to her, and uh, Dean comes through.
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It's a Twitter post or a Twitter message, and it's to the handle of the social media light.
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He's like, Oh my god.
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And he is pissed at first, but then he uses it as a tool, basically, to talk to her.
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He uses it to his advantage.
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One of the ways he uses it to his advantage is they're hanging out, right?
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He falls in love with her.
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They haven't even had sex yet, but they've made out, they've done a few things like that.
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He refuses to have sex with her until she is like, Yes, I'm yours.
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I'm your girlfriend.
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I'm, you know, whatever.
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Until she submits to him like that, he doesn't want to have sex with her.
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I think he's using it as like a little bit of control because it turns out Ronan's really into control in the bedroom.
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There's a lot of light BDSM when the spice actually happens.
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They make a really big deal of it, but it's not even like, I mean, there's just restraints and like a spreader bar.
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It's not even like full-flown BDSM.
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Like he's not, he's not whipping her or nothing.
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There's a little spanking, but it's very light BDSM.
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But it's like made into this big thing.
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He mostly likes the submission aspect, being the one in charge, having his partner tied up, and so he can kind of do what he wants.
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But I mean, it's really made into a bigger deal.
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But that's why he likes her so much.
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They're so compatible.
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She is naturally uh like timid and submissive, easily falls into that role for him, and he loves it.
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But he's refusing to have sex with her until she admits that she's his.
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But he does fall in love with her, just her is a person, and he's like really into her.
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And so he messages the social media light, and he's like, knowing that it's Annie and tells the social media like, look, this is what's going on.
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I'm crazy in love with her, but she won't even be my girlfriend, and I don't know what to do.
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What if she never reciprocates?
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I mean, like, it's a very sweet message, knowing that he it's Annie who's gonna read it.
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But he's like, if I try to tell her this in person, it's just gonna freak her out and scare her.
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I can't even get her to be my girlfriend.
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I'm not gonna be able to be like, hey, by the way, I'm in love with you.
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She's gonna freak out.
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So this is his roundabout way of telling her, knowing that she is the social media light.
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She can get the information and hopefully be able to process it however she wants and not even have to respond.
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And so that's his plan.
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She does respond favorably and finally gives in to okay, we're together officially.
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You're my boyfriend.
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And then they have sex finally.
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The spice happens as we're like 60 something percent into the book.
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I mean, there is so much innuendo, so much dirty talk, so much of him like making comments.
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There's spice like that, all peppered throughout.
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But the actual sex doesn't happen until 60 something percent into the book, and it is very descriptive.
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It's hot, not gonna lie.
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Like I said, there's light BDSM.
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The first time they're in his very nice classic car, and he uses the seatbelts to tie her up or whatever.
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She's into it.
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And his ex is disproven, by the way.
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Um, they ended up Pan her off just to get the picture.
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She had some pictures that she took of them having sex and her tied up.
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And he had a spreader bar on her and a collar on her, but the collar was her idea.
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He's not even into a collar.
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So it was kind of silly that she thought that that was gonna prove that he was physically abusive.
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She looks like a winning willing participant, even in the pictures, so it's stupid.
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So she only gets like 200,000 just so it doesn't get out there since they're trying to clean his image up, but it's not even that big of a deal.
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So now the ex is out of the picture and not a big deal.
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Annie realizes she's in love with Ronan, but she doesn't want to tell him yet because she's terrified.
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And at this point, she's like, I've been chatting with him as the social media light.
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If I'm in love with him, I'm gonna need to tell him that I'm the social media light, and he's gonna be mad.
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And what if he doesn't want to forgive me?
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And blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And so anyway, that's her hang up now.
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He already knows, and he's just waiting for her to tell him they are coming back from an event.
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And he's already, like, in the act of sex, told her that he loves her, right?
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So she knows she's not said it back, but she's acting like she loves him.
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So he's feeling good about it.
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Well, after this event, he's overcome with his love for her and he proposes marriage.
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It took her forever to for you to be her boyfriend, dude.
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He keeps pushing that envelope, right?
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Which is it's endearing, it's sweet, it's making him look very, very eager.
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He is so taken with her.
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But at the same time, you keep pushing that envelope.
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If you really loved her, man, you need to chill out just a touch.
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Be her boyfriend for at least a month before you decide that now you're gonna try to push for marriage.
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It blew my mind just a little bit.
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Like, calm your ass down, Ronan.
00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:08.559
Calm down a little bit, just chill a touch.
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She's like, Oh my God, I've got to tell them now.
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Because she wants to say yes.
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Well, they go into they're in Dublin, by the way, at this point because they had to go for an event.
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So they've been in Dublin for a little bit, and they go to their hotel room, and when they get there, someone had broken in.
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They find out really quick that it's one of the more aggressive paparazzi guys that broke in, but her laptop has been stolen.
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And now she has a full-fledged panic attack.
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And the full-fledged panic attack is not because she was doing work about other clients and their information.
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No, her panic attack is because her social media light shit is on there.
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And oh my God, she's gonna be outed.
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And so that's what she's freaking out about.
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And so to soothe her, he is like, Look, babe, I know you're the social media light.
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I'm not angry about it.
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I will help you figure this out.
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I'm with you no matter what.
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I mean, it's fine.
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I've already figured out that's who you are.
00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:25.440
Well, she goes into a tailspin and is like, you fucking lied to me.
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And she like freaks out, way overreacts instead of being like, Oh my god, you know?
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Did you tell anyone like it's just between us?
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No, she takes it as I can't believe anyone knows.
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It's now tainted and ruined to me.
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I'm mad at you.
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You you lied, you used my, you know, like anyway, she's freaking out.
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She breaks up with him and then takes a quick flight back to New York without telling him, by the way.
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He leaves to give her space for the night, like she asked, and she books it out of there and goes to New York.
00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:05.279
Well, this breaks his heart because he was like, I just told you not to leave me.
00:26:05.519 --> 00:26:09.039
Like, that was my only I'm giving you all the space you want.
00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:14.559
But I when you agreed to be my girlfriend, I said, and you you gotta be up front of me.
00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:15.759
You can't run away.
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Tell talk to me when if you get upset, because I know your first instinct is to is flight.
00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:23.519
You can't do that to me.
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That will break my heart.
00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:27.680
You need to actually talk to me when you're upset about something.
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And then what does she do?
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The first big issue they have, she fucking bolts.
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And he's like, was the one thing I asked.
00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:37.920
I said, You could take your time, you could say whatever you want.
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I'm gonna forgive most things because I love you, but please just don't do that to me.
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I won't abandon you.
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Please don't abandon me.
00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:50.400
I feel like that's not a bad big ask, man.
00:26:50.720 --> 00:27:04.960
So the next time she sees him is for a social event, and they've already talked about like her PR people have already been like, you're off the case, you're still on fake girlfriend duty, but we're gonna phase you out and get him a new fake girlfriend.
00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:16.400
Next time she sees him at the social event, he is treating her coolly, like he is keeping distant, he is doing only what is required, and she realizes what a mistake she's made.
00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:19.440
She's like, Oh my god, I'm in love with him.
00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:23.519
I can't believe I did this, I've ruined it, blah, blah, blah.
00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:28.480
So she realizes she needs to make an effort.
00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:31.359
He's been making all the moves, all the efforts.
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She's being scared and hiding in the shadows.
00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:51.200
So to show how much she loves him and to make this grand gesture, she outs herself as a social media light and uses a social media light blog post to talk about how much she loves him and how she ruined it.
00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:54.000
And by the way, this is Annie Cottrell.
00:27:54.400 --> 00:28:05.359
And he sees the post, is ecstatic, is like, oh my God, she chose me, and runs off to see her.
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And yes, they're together happily ever after.
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Yay! They end up moving to Ireland.
00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:13.599
There's an epilogue, they end up moving to Ireland.
00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:17.680
But Ronan's very cute sister, who is featured in the second book, by the way.
00:28:17.839 --> 00:28:33.759
Lucy's in the second book uh of the series, but she moves to New York and kind of subleases Annie's apartment and works for Annie by taking pictures of celebrities for Annie to keep up her blog.
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There's zero repercussions about her coming out as the social media light.
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Everyone's just cool with it.
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And they're like, oh, okay, nobody has anything negative to say that we know of.
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They get married and they're happily ever after.
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Oh, and she quits her job at the PR firm, but she stays on as a consultant so that she can choose whatever clients and work exclusively from home in Ireland.
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Very cute book.
00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:05.039
It was so funny.
00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:06.559
Um, it was funny.
00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:07.839
I loved Ronan.
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I even though he was just pushy and overly forward and kind of sexually harassing, I still loved Ronan.
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I loved his his humor, his wit.
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I thought they did really, really well with the dialogue.
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It was funny.
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To be fair, I really love Penny Reed's writing.
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I she's usually just hilarious.
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I her her whole beards book was was great.
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Like there's a bunch of them.
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And uh, they're all hilarious.
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I I really like her wit.
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I like her humor.
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Even though there are some problematic pieces in this book.
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And Annie, I wanted to smack her even when I understood her.
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I'm giving this book five four stars.
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I'm giving it four stars.
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I really enjoyed it.
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I thought it was funny.
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This is a reread for me.
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I still really liked it the second time I read it, even though I didn't like it as much because there were some pieces that I just, I don't know, I glossed over.
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I didn't remember how pushy he was and how he kept pushing, even when she was like, no, leave me alone.
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What are you doing?
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Stop.
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I still really, I mean, I still really liked it.
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I'm giving the spice a 3.5.
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It was spicy, it was very explicit and described a lot of things.
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And even though it kept talking about how kinky Ronan is, he just likes to tie her up.
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That's it.
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He's just tying her up and teasing her a bit.
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And I don't know why that's so kinky.
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I mean, it's it's hot, it's sexy.
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I'm not mad about a spreader bar either, but I just I don't know why it was like, oh, he is so dirty, he is so kinky, he is so out there.
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And even his ex was like, he's sick with what he likes.
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And I'm like, that's sick, and there's a lot more twisted kinks than just liking to handcuff your partner, okay?
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Giving it a 3.5 because I don't think it was as kinky as what it it tried to make itself out to be.
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But it was really sexy, it was really hot, it was really explicit, and there was plenty of it after we finally got over that 60-something when they're just teasing each other when he finally went for it.
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I mean, the whole second half is a lot of sex.
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Again, not mad about it.
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Let's get to quotes.
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Okay, most of my quotes are coming from Ronan because I loved his personality.
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I thought he was hilarious.
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He had a lot of great things to say, and so, and plus with Annie, she's so fucking introverted, we don't get a whole lot from her.
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All right, here's Ronan.
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Mullets and questionably tight pants aside, the best music in the world was 80s rock.
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And I had no qualms about admitting it.
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Fuck yes, Ronan, you are so right, sir.
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I am an 80s baby.
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I love some 80s rock.
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Hello, Bon Jovi.
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Hello, Aerosmith, hey Van Halen, hey.
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I fucking love 80s rock.
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And it is still the most fun, most energetic, especially if you're trying to work out or something or you're getting pumped about stuff.
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Dude, throw on some some hair metal.
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It is fucking great.
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So hello, Ronan.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for the acknowledgement.
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I love it too.
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All right, this is Ronan talking to Annie about why he likes her.
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You're very real, Annie.
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I like that you're without pretense.
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I like that you're both smart and sexy as hell without a whole lot of fuss.
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I like who you are.
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Yeah, she doesn't have a whole lot of fuss.
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She doesn't wear a lot of makeup.
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She tries to wear clothes that hide her incredibly vivacious hourglass figure.
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He talks about her rounded hips and her big boobs and how she still has a small waist.
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I mean, this chick is hourglass for sure, and he loves it.
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This one's so funny.
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I had to include this quote.
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Ronan decides he's going to try to woo Annie by sending her a ton of gifts.
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Like every day he's sending her like a whole, like a bunch of tea because she likes tea, a gorgeous Tiffany necklace, um, like all kinds of stuff.
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Well, one day he sends an insane amount of flowers to fill her entire apartment up with different types of flowers because he doesn't know exactly what her favorite flower is.
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And he includes this note.
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This is Ronan.
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Dearest Annie, roses are red, violets are blue.
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I'm using my hand, but I'm thinking of you.
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Ronan.
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P.S.
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Just to clarify, I'm using my hand to write this note.
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Get your mind out of the gutter.
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I like when you listen to the audiobook.
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It the actor does have a nice, very sexy Irish accent, which makes most of which is probably why I like a lot of what Ronin this time.
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I didn't listen to the audiobook.
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I read it this time, but before.
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And maybe that's why I skipped over all of the questionable things Ronan was doing, because you could get away with a lot if you have a sexy Irish accent, at least with me.
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So all right, this one's a little sad.
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This is Ronan after she she runs off, right?
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And then she's like, try to just talk to him before she comes with up with her grand gesture idea.
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And he's like, No.
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So this is Ronan.
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There are some things, some people worth fighting for.
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You would be worth fighting for.
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You would, if you wanted me like I, like I want you.
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Oh, it's so sad.
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Because he had done nothing but put himself out there and try and try and put himself out there repeatedly and just constantly, he's giving her affirmations.
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He is giving her, you know, everything he can.
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He is almost too much.
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He is just like, just constantly just giving her himself.
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And he has to fight for every scrap of anything from Annie.
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And then the first fight they have, she jets off.
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And so he was just like shattered about it.
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This is Ronan's sweet declaration of love that he sent to the social media.
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And the fact of the matter is, I'm in love with her, heartbreakingly, soul-wrenchingly, earth-shatteringly in love with her.
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It's nothing like I've ever felt before.
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And I need her to love me back more than I need to take my next breath.
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I can't imagine a greater agony than this big, pulsing, fierce love I have for her being unreciprocated.
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I would rather take a hundred blows to the head out on the field, suffer a thousand concussions than not have her beside me for the rest of my life.
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My God.
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And this is after he reads her blog, outing herself as a social media light, admitting how much she loves him, admitting that she wants to spend her life with him.
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Ronan's like jumped up.
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He went from being depressed because he lost his lady love to he is just like, yeah.
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And so is Ronan.
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Yeah, that's right.
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I just victory punched butt naked in the shower.
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Imagine this outgoing, goofy, huge, muscular athlete who likes 80s hair metal just in the shower, like, yeah.
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It was so like breakfast club coated at the end.
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He's like, yeah, I got her.
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I loved it.
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I thought it was great.
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It was a nice ending.
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It was a very funny book.
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Let's get on to casting, y'all.
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And I am so excited.
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This view are in our trophy season.
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We are talking sporty book boyfriends.
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Fuck yes.
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I thought it would be fun for all of my MMCs this season, this month, if I cast actual male athletes from the featured sport.
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So I got to dive deep into rugby players.
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Y'all, it's a hard job, but someone had to do it, right?
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I needed to check all the thighs out.
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Rugby players have some insane legs, though.
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I mean, my God.
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With that in mind, Ronan, our book boyfriend of the week, is going to be played by Tom Evans.
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Tom Evans is a very attractive Scottish rugby player.
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He last played on the wing for Glasgow Warriors in the Celtic League.
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And he was retired after a neck injury.
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He's gorgeous and a rugby player, and he totally fits Ronan.
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And I was, yeah, it was an easy cast after I looked through so many.
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I was like, he was the only one that I was like, fuck yeah, that's Ronan.
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That's perfect.
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Does not look like Colin Farrell per se, but there's enough of a, yeah, it works.
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I love, I love it.
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For Annie, I needed someone that was curvaceous, beautiful, flawless, pale skin, someone who just could be an awkward introvert.
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There's only one person that has that type of voluptuous body, that type of energy.
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That's right.
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I'm going cat dennings, y'all.
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Fuck yes, I am.
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She's in Two Broke Girls.
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She's also Darcy, Darcy Lewis in the all the Thor movies.
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She has got the body.
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She has that beauty that's kind of hard to like, because she plays some goofy ass characters that I mean, in two broke girls, she's wearing that ugly waitress dress for most of the shots.
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And you can still tell that the woman is seriously insane looking.
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Like she is so beautiful that even when she downplays her beauty, she's still eye-catching.
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So there was really nobody else I could pick to play Annie.
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This casting's fucking perfect.
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I mean, my God, love it.
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This one, this one was a solid hit, really great opener for our series.
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And I can't wait to get to the next one.
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