I wonder if it's because, like you said, each character obviously comes out of your brain. And so to some extent, there's something in you that fuels the life and soul of each character. Maybe with Brad at some part of the way, the journey of writing this novel, there was a little bit more of you in Brad. The other guy who's kind of me in the book, I have a character that I knew from the beginning, what's gonna be best? Bill. He's I like to have newspaper people in books because I was one for many, many years. It's the the business I know the best. So Phil is an alcoholic, retired, not

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