Welcome to Goop Tales Behind the Story for episodes 88 and 89.

I'm Maria Kalinchini and I'm the founder and creator of Goop Tales.

If you're new to Goop Tales, and this is your very first time listening,

you're probably going to want to go back and listen to episodes 88 and 89

that are the actual stories that I'm going to talk about today.

Because the behind the story series was designed to accompany the regular story episodes

and just give you a little peek behind how I create the stories and where their inspiration

comes from. Today's episode is not actually a story, it's behind the story.

We are going to pull back the curtain and dive a little bit deeper into Impatienta's

adventures in Switzerland and never listens trip to the island of Ila in Scotland.

I'm going to answer the one question I received from a listener about these stories.

If you haven't already listened, just hit pause, go back and listen to those,

and then you can come back and find out what happens behind the

scenes.

Micah sent in a question. And thank you, Micah, because you definitely have sent questions before,

and I love your interest in this. And anybody else that has a question,

please feel free to send in a question about the most recent goop-tale or even a really old one

that you had a question about. And I am happy to answer it. Micah's question is, were there any

other members of Napoleon's family besides his mother and father?

Great question, Micah, because it has a really interesting answer. The answer is yes, there were other members.

Napoleon, as it turned out, came from a pretty large family. He was one of seven.

That means he had six siblings. I had no idea. So he had three brothers and three sisters.

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