Is It Too Late to Get This Story In?

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Maryme and evan met when Maryme was the letters page editor at wirt magazine. They were writing stories for a story that you had written about cute ink kal yagoce in Japan. A couple of weeks later, maryme got an email saying she heard from a woman who has a hello kitty vibrator. MARYME: I have no memory of this. Do you think that was hi san rio put out, or do you think that she kind of jerry rigged it and put the logo on herself? Evan: Was it really a wow. Your assessment in the email was that it was a knock off. It was, it was off brand

Mary Roach is the author of seven nonfiction books, including her latest, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.

"In these realms of the taboo, there's a tremendous amount of material that is really interesting, but that people have stayed away from. ... I'm kind of a bottom feeder. It's down there on the bottom where people don't want to go. But if that's what it takes to find interesting, new material, I'm fine with it. I don't care. I'm not easily grossed out. I don't feel that there's any reason why we shouldn't look at this. And over time, I started to feel that ... the taboo was preventing people from having conversations that it would be healthy to have."

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