You are listening to a Clark's World Magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. Welcome to the second story of the month of September,

issue 216.

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So our second story is titled,

Fish Fear Me, You Need Me by Tiffany Ju.

Tiffany Ju is a biomedical engineer by day and writer by almost every other waking moment.

Originally from New York, she now resides in Boston with her

husband and their overgrown houseplants. So my dear listener I hope that you can

sit back, relax and let me tell you a story.

Mac comes in after running around the little island we live on,

used to be 10 laps.

Then it became 20, now 30.

All sweaty and out of breath and says,

Good weather for fishing today. I nod because at this point in with his predelections.

He's always the final vote on whether or not we fish. It's like my mom used to say.

Happy wife, happy life. Except I've never been married and Max's wife went underwater 23 years ago.

He and I met six months after that.

Him in a little sad raft surviving off of cans of sardines packed before the floods and the fish, and me

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