If you enjoy this show, you will enjoy the new novel Alice isn't dead, a standalone,

complete reimagining of this story. It's out now, find it wherever you encounter books,

or at AliceIsn't Dead.com.

Sylvia and her mother have their lives changed forever when they stopped for gas at a

sonaco in East Fischkill. We search for signs and prophecies of the great changes that are waiting

for us, but most often they come suddenly in mundane places while we do mundane things.

A heart attack while watching Netflix. A phone call about the pregnancy while you're deciding on

which brand of granola to buy at the supermarket. A sudden act of violence when you've stopped for gas.

Alice isn't dead by Joseph Fink, performed by Jiseka Nicole, produced by Dispiration. Part 2,

Chapter 5, Tchaikonic. Sylvia's mother was also named Sylvia.

Folks don't think twice if man names a son after himself, or even if all the men in the family

have the same name for generations, but a woman names her daughter after herself and everyone

gets so confused, Sylvia said. When she was little she didn't think anything at all about having

the same name as her mother. Later she realized it was weird, and she didn't like being weird,

and it made her defensive about it, and she didn't like to tell people her name.

When she hit her teenage years, she blamed her mom and refused to go by Sylvia.

I asked her what name she went by.

Skip, she said.

Seriously, I asked her. Seriously, skip, she said. Don't be an asshole. She was right. I apologized.

Do you want me to call you Skip? No, she said quietly. Ever since,

ever since my mom had gone back to Sylvia, I don't hold it against her anymore. I get it.

I get her so much more now that she's gone. I wish I could tell her that.

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