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May 29Liked by Anastasia Allison

I have 3 children-14 months between the three of them. No they are not twins or triplets. How is that possible?

They are adopted. When they were little people were confused how you could have 3 kids so close in age. We were often asked are they twins? Are they triplets? What are they? They are adopted from Korea. The oldest and youngest are natural siblings but the middle child was our first.

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Amazing, Judy! What a fun family!!

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May 29Liked by Anastasia Allison

Fun fact: I am so used to reading the Kula Diaries as soon as each entry is live (5pm my time)… I kept refreshing your Substack page for 35 mins until I saw it updated! Glad you’re alive and posting!!

Also: I laughed so hard during the ChatGPT conversation that my sacroiliac joint cracked (don’t worry - I’m okay). How did you read that with a “straight face” ?!?

I tried my own…

What is a fun and random fact about myself?

ChatGPT

How about this: I once accidentally walked into the wrong classroom and ended up participating in a pottery class for an entire semester without realizing it wasn't my intended course!

Make it hotter

ChatGPT

Sure thing! How about this: I once attended a salsa dance class thinking it was a cooking class, and ended up salsa dancing my way through the evening with spicy moves instead of cooking up a storm in the kitchen!

HOTTER

ChatGPT

Alright, let's crank up the heat! Picture this: I once found myself in a steamy salsa dancing class, thinking it was a fiery hot yoga session. Imagine my surprise when I discovered I had accidentally salsa-ed my way through the whole class, turning up the temperature with every spicy step!

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Haha! I thought about you this morning when I posted later than normal. I realized yesterday that I had forgotten to include the photo of Eternal Ember in my post, so I had to delay it for 35 minutes to give me time to get to the office and take a photo - HAHA! Also, your hot answers made me laugh so hard!!!

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Okay I came up with real fun/random fact: I recently interviewed my toaster for my audio course homework and my classmates loved it!

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Have you listened to the radiolab where they featured the interview with a grain of sand? Amazing!

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May 29Liked by Anastasia Allison

I am guessing you’re referring to a cross-post that Radiolab did with an Everything is Alive episode (Chioke, Grain of Sand) in which case YESSSSS and that is one of my favorite episodes and I recommend the entirety of Everything is Alive if you like object personification. I talked about this specific episode in one of my podcast applications - I love how the grain of sand got so philosophical!!!! Have listened to the episode multiple times over the years and it doesn’t get old.

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YES!! I am so excited to listen more to that podcast. I had never heard of it before, and it's just brilliant!

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I'm a guy that bought his wife a Kula and now I get these emails and truly enjoy them!

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When I was in kindergarten I got it into my head that it would be a good idea to tell my teacher and class that my dad died. I got really special treatment that day, I even felt like I believed my own story! Imagine my horror when I got home and my mom was on the phone with my teacher explaining to her that my dad was alive. Needless to say my special day promptly fell apart.

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😱😳 wow!

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Fun fact - I just saw Kula Cloth mentioned in the Washington Post and I, a generally quiet and un-emotive person, whooped out loud.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/05/29/hiking-tips-gear-appalachian-trail/

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Fun fact: I thought I had a tail until I was in my 20s. Turns out it was just a lil lipoma nubbin. I got it removed but I miss my bump on my rump sometimes.

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That AI dialogue was priceless. I love casual disagreements with bots 🤣 fun fact: I have used a coworker's leftover breast milk to help clear up eczema. (More of a gross, weird fact??). It is a miracle liquid. When I lived in dry CO (and all my friends were having babies) it was the only thing that would really clear up awful eyelid eczema. Yeah, I know. 🤦‍♀️

This is on my mind today specifically because I'm trying to source "spare breast milk" to experiment on the Arkanpox that plagues me every summer in my tick-infested Southern jungle home.

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Fun fact: I finally cleaned my motorcycle helmet after a year of worrying I wouldn't be able to put all the padding back together the right away after washing - and finally successfully did it! Whoohoo!

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My fun fact is that I’m terrible at remembering to check and read Substack, but I’m at a doctors appointment where I’ve been waiting FOREVER with my book in the other room, and it’s been the perfect occupier.

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I'm doing my first adventure race in NY this weekend... Kula coming!

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I lost my kula this weekend while biking on the Mickelson trail in South Dakota. So sad!

I definitely could use this hot dog kula. Way too many drip dries over 2 days of the 112 mile trail.

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I reenact the American Civil War in Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

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The best name😂😂🙌🏻🙌🏻

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