dynamite ideas and quotes given to be my john guess the the director of this museum by mike forte by randall woodfin the mayor of birmingham. i was very lucky getting to put them together. yeah. so i'm gonna jump really there's not one on audience question here at the moment. i have more but i want to jump in here with an audience a question practical question. how long did it take to write this book? i am sold the book proposal in august 2020 and submitted the manuscript in march of 2021, which is ridiculous. that's very fast. but sort of like smokes on this are you able to multitasking and write a full way. i was not doing anything else, but but i i was every single moment of my time that was not spent with my kids to the extent that all of my social interaction. it was during pandemics. i just had my friends and family in the bubble, but they they heard a lot of there's a real period where it is writing the the stone mountain chapter which has a lot of clan involvement and be like sitting down at lunch and saying okay. today's clan facts are right so it took over your life for the for those month

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