So one of the things that I kind of really loved is we start to see these, like scriptures from this earth, sea books of the living. And we start the book with the quote that I really love. All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change. God is change. And there's so much to talk about with that quote alone. But in the first chapter of the book, we kind of get some insight into Lauren. She's talking to her stepmom, and as someone who's really into space and pretty big nerd there, I thought it was interesting their conversation about how the stars were really visible, and that's kind of a norm in this future. But her said, Mom is kind of reminiscing and has a bit of nostalgia for the past and the city lights, the progress all of these things that I think we associate with modern times, big, tall buildings, this kind of economic growth. And her step mom says there aren't anywhere near as many as there were, as far as city lights. Kids today have no idea what a blaze of city lights used to be and not really that long ago. And Lauren says, I'd rather have the stars, the stars are free. So I thought it was interesting that she's kind of having this conversation about a lot of things are not as accessible to this, like younger generation. Something I find interesting is that this book is set to start this year. And it is weird because it starts on, you know, we hear earlier the book she's talking about, it's her 15th birthday, so it's like, oh, there's some like, 15 year old out there right now, witnessing the world, witnessing Trump get reelected. This is probably not too far off right from from what they might experience. But early in the book, she starts to talk a little bit about or she gets baptized at her father's church. And a couple quotes I thought were really interesting, she says, at least three years ago, my father's God stopped being my God, His Church stopped being my church, and yet, because I'm a coward, I let myself be initiated into that church. I find this to be interesting. It's a good kind of bit of foreshadowing, but something that I think a lot of us tend to do, we compromise on some of the things we care about because of our family, where we want to make them happy. But I think even as a parallel, it's easy to let yourself be a coward in the world sometimes, and get and get initiated in the things that you don't totally believe in, even though you have this conviction that you're not totally on board with it, but we kind of tend to go along with it anyway. But they get baptized. They take this trek into the city. So they're based about 20 minutes, 20 miles outside of Los Angeles. And she talks about how much fear there is around adults or around children going into the outside world, leaving their walled off neighborhood, and she talks a bit about these kind of, like three tiers of classes. She sees of neighborhoods. There's the rich neighborhoods with like, one big house and a lot of little shacky dependencies where their servants lived. There were a couple more, like middle class neighborhoods, but, you know, they are, were not great walls. They're unwatered rocks, chunk of chunks of concrete and trash. And then there's kind of like the low list of the low which means really not having any sort of walled off protection. She says there's the pitiful unwalled residential areas where a lot of house are trashed, burned out, vandalized. But on this ride she they encounter lots of pain, lots of people who have experienced violence they encounter, and this starts to allude to some of the violence and sexual violence that is pretty common in this time and her dad, Lauren, we get interest. We get introduced to her hyper empathy syndrome. So I think this is we've got lots of stuff to talk about with this, but her dad has this perspective on it, that she can control it. He tells her, you can beat this thing. You don't have to give into it. And so I find it really interesting. I think there's a lot that that hyper empathy syndrome kind of parallels with us today. But even the investment that the families make so that these kids can get baptized like the all of the other kids, parents help with the cost, just so they get clean water, and they talk about the rising cost of water. So after she gets baptized, she's doing a lot of thinking about God. She's writing down her scriptures, and then to kind of summarize the last chapter, a big point, here, she talks about the space program and how one of the astronauts and astronauts who went to Mars was killed, their body was brought back, and her dad was kind of on the same page with the President that at the time that space travel wasn't really necessary. And the reason I'm sorry if this reading was it was really long, but I really wanted us to end with the page about the new president's election. Obviously very timely, but I think this section is really important. She says President William Turner Smith lost yesterday's election. Christopher Charles Moore, Donners, our new president. President Elect. So what are we in for? Donner has already said that as soon as possible, after his inauguration next year, he'll begin to dismantle the wasteful, pointless, unnecessary Moon and Mars programs, near space programs dealing with communications and experimentation will be privatized, sold off. Also. Downer has a plan for putting people back to work. He hopes to get laws changed to suspend overly restrictive minimum wage, environmental and worker protection laws for those employers willing to take on homeless employees and provide them with training and adequate room and board. And she starts to question a bit about what that really means. And then say, won't it make much more sense for companies to hire single people, childless couples, or most people with only one or two kids. I wonder about those poison about those suspended laws, will it be legal to poison, mutilate or infect people as long as you provide them with food, water and space to die? She says her dad decided not to vote for Donna at all. He didn't vote, and I think that is very relevant for a lot of the things that we're dealing with now. So I've got a couple questions, kind of starting going chapter by chapter, but just in the recap, what are some of the things that this the section of reading made you think about? I