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Awwww, Meg❤️❤️ Hard to write through teary eyes. Love being your friend

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You're the best, Chuckles. Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday!!! 💜💜💜

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Who did your male voice?

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I don't know him personally. I think his name is Microsoft Christopher Online (Natural) - English (United States)

😉

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I thought he sounded awfully buttoned down, but those robo voices have gotten a hell of a lot better. I wondered for a moment how you had married such a stiff!

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And you do know the woman's voice is not mine, right?

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I was on the fence on that, but given your past lives I thought it might be you. It’s really paradoxical that you lean so heavily on stock voices for your decidedly non-stock writing

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At the end of the day, I'm not a huge fan of my speaking voice. I did attempt to record the script myself, but TBH, it's actually REALLY hard to deliver that kind of spiel without running out of breath or tripping over words. 😂 The experiment gave me a greater appreciation for voice over professionals. There's a real art to it.

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For years I’d work with voice actors who were narrating all the online training and videos we produced. The good ones were really impressive.

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Being married back is the bomb! I got married back, too.

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SCORE!

Hey, remember when we were presumed married in that chat thread for 30 seconds because we were bickering so convincingly? 😂 #substackmemories

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That's why we have to be so nice to each other now. 🤣

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Love is a drug. I particularly loved the side effects.

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I think I covered about a third of them. 😂 And of course, I only included the unpleasant ones for commercial effect.

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And happy VD to you too, Meg! ❤️

Oh no, that does not look right at all.

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Yeah. I'll have to pass on the HVD.

Acronyms take all the fun out of things. 🙄

https://stockfiction.substack.com/p/awkward-af

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OMG. I actually learned a few new ones reading that piece!

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no.

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The side effects forgot to mention that while the potent agonist* love may lead to pregnancy, pregnancy definitely leads to children, which are the most powerful antagonists of love ever discovered.

Anyway, great piece! Very funny.

*This is clumsy, but I'm trying to stick with the pharmaceutical metaphor.

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You mean you and your wife aren't closer now for having a common enemy?? 😉

Sadly, it takes children teaming up in groups of two or more for them become effective birth control. Otherwise more of us would stop after one. ¯\(°_o)/¯

Thanks for dropping in and getting metaphorical today. 🥂

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Is the enemy of my enemy my friend, or my enemy?

An eternal conundrum.

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Stop it, you're making me laugh. Love and marriage is a serious business - ask any 💐 seller. 😜

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Nothing says "ca-ching" to a florist like a desperate man trying to avoid sleeping in the doghouse. 🌷

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This is why I have a cat... 😛

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