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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha. I'm walking to Steffan

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Speaker 1: never told you protection, iHeartRadio. And we are back with

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Speaker 1: our fiction, which is something we do once a month

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Speaker 1: ish kind of. Yeah, we took a break for a minute,

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Speaker 1: but it wants a month ish. This is the third

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Speaker 1: part of the trilogy, Terminus, and we are in the

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Speaker 1: final chapter. Everybody, We have split it into two, so

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go out with a bang. As always, Christina

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Speaker 1: makes you sound amazing with her sound effects. I always

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Speaker 1: love hearing what she does with them, so I'm just

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Speaker 1: excited as you at the point of recording, I haven't

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Speaker 1: heard yet, so it is so exciting. And yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is our big finale. There will still be fiction after

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Speaker 1: we wrap up this series, but we are coming to

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Speaker 1: the end of the series. That being said, as I

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Speaker 1: always say, this was something I did for Nano Raimo,

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Speaker 1: which doesn't exist anymore, National Novel Writing Month. It's what

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Speaker 1: it sounds like. We had to write a novel of

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand warns, just sixty thousand words within the month

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Speaker 1: of November, and all three of these I did for that.

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Speaker 1: This one is clearly I say this with love, but

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Speaker 1: this is clearly the one that I was like stressing

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Speaker 1: the most stuff. Got to get something done for this,

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Speaker 1: and I do really like the ending. We'll talk more

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Speaker 1: about that when we get to the end. Content warning

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Speaker 1: there for guns, violence, child endangerment, lots of guns. I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna put it in there again. This is like

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Speaker 1: the confrontation that we've been building up to. So there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of conflict. And that being said for the

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Speaker 1: recap so far, we have our heroes, Tilda and Madison,

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Speaker 1: who have grown up in this world where people can't

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Speaker 1: There is a disease called HSB five and people can't

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Speaker 1: get pregnant. If after the first time they have penis

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Speaker 1: and vaginal sex, they don't get pregnant at that time,

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Speaker 1: then it's just not going to happen for you. And

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Speaker 1: so humanity is dying. And in the United States at least,

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Speaker 1: the government has coalesced into what is called the state

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Speaker 1: and they have a ruling religious arm called Armor, and

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Speaker 1: they have taken control of conception, so you're it is

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Speaker 1: illegal to try to conceive outside of a birthing center.

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Speaker 1: So Madison, who is Tilda son, was born illegally and

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Speaker 1: they have been on the run ever since and through

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Speaker 1: this whole thing, they find a resistance has told Tilda

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Speaker 1: they think humanity brought this on themselves and this is

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Speaker 1: the punishment. However, they saved one vaccine, so Tilda and

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Speaker 1: and the Resistance is trying to find them and stays

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Speaker 1: Madison and is wrestling with this idea that he should

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Speaker 1: help because maybe he can help vaccinate other people. Tilda

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Speaker 1: Tilda could add this to the list of things she

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Speaker 1: fell back. Her heart hammered against her rib cage as

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Speaker 1: She needed to choose a direction quickly, Madison, where are you?

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Speaker 1: There were so many doors, one after the other on

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Speaker 1: the woman whispered, I recognized you. Tilda didn't say anything,

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Speaker 1: I'll get in trouble. Tilda, her sole attention on the

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Speaker 1: For several tent seconds, the woman observed Tilda, and Tilda

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Speaker 1: in medical. They're keeping Madison in medical at the very

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Speaker 1: slacked with surprise but tightening as it transformed into anger.

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Speaker 1: Where are you, it whispered, the question, fluttering and the

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Speaker 1: with tears. Her ears ringing, Tilda tore her gaze away

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Speaker 1: We have to get out of here. Okay. She pulled back,

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Speaker 1: and so that was very purposeful. We're going to get

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Speaker 1: Because that's what the sign says. Yeah, please let us know,

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Speaker 1: But yes, okay, well you have a one more parts.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna wrap this up, hopefully in the next bit,

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Speaker 1: about it, Christina, thank you so much, always amazing and yeah,

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Speaker 1: any suggestions for things we can do in this kind

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