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A quick note about our show.

We do a lot of research for our stories, but we also aren't your high school history class,

so some details and scenes are dramatized.

And our language can be a little less than regal, to please be advised.

Thank you. language can be a little less than regal. So please be advised. Okay, Erescia, describe your dream man. And don't just say Ryan Gosling.

I was literally just going to say Ryan Gosling. You got to give features. You want physical features or like personality stuff?

I guess both.

Because personality stuff, he's got to be funny.

Yes.

He's got to be a champion of human rights, blah, blah, blah.

Sure.

I don't know.

I'd like him to be working towards something, like have kind of ambition,

but not so much ambition that, like, every day we're doing stuff. Like, we got to chill.

Physical stuff, ideally taller than me, because I'm not, like, insanely tall.

Yeah. And he's got to have a good laugh.

Okay, well. Should I keep going? I could pull out my dossier. You're good.

Now picture meeting him, falling in love and making plans to get married. And then right before

you tie the knot, King Henry VIII walks in and demands that you marry him instead. What would you do?

You mean old boil-legged Henry V 8th? Old puss legs, Henry,

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