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feel worse to pretend that everything was alright than it did to keep it to myself. As my friend, Nadia Bolz-Weber says, “The best antidote to shame is sunlight.” I love that you shared about your romantic relationships in Between Two Kingdoms, because that can be something that people don’t share candidly about. Of course you were dealing with love and breakups; you were a 22-year-old woman. I don’t want to say girl—. Reading the Official Tyler Childers Sold Out Shirt Apart from…,I will love this book, we know Jon as your friend from band camp. But then, to the outside world, he’s Jon Batiste, and you two have become a kind of creative power couple. Does it still sit well with you to have been as open as you were in the book about the ins and outs of your relationship? How does he fit into your story now? Well, he’s always just been Jon to me. He’s never been Jon Batiste, and I think that’s the gift of knowing each
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