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Mia Aiyana's avatar

This is one of the only substacks that I read every single post of-- your stories are always so amusing!! I can't wait for Young World :)

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Soman Chainani's avatar

I'm so grateful that you come back every week!

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Ava's avatar

Amazing story! You are so funny Soman! :)

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Soman Chainani's avatar

Thank you :))

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Sarah Allen's avatar

My parents also live on several acres in Missouri (though not a farm!) and I'm always shocked how dark it is at night. The stars are incredible.

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Soman Chainani's avatar

It's my favorite thing about the farm. Just the complete darkness.

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meher m's avatar

Premium content as always

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Soman Chainani's avatar

I try

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NeverTrueLove's avatar

I'm just imagining the animals on the farm one day preparing to to go completley animal farm on you one day . And I guess Genghis was an Agatha all along for being so ugly faced you guy thought she was a boy. It's interesting how animals see their offspring as threats like lions who kill any cubs who aren't theirs away usually their are exceptions but that's how it goes unless your wolves who typically stay all together .

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hallie m. bertling, halthegal.'s avatar

THANK YOU FOR NOT SHARING A PICTURE OF THE SNAKE.

that's all.

the Lord, He did not create it.

(& you as jennifer coolidge made me laugh. even so, amen.)

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Soman Chainani's avatar

I didn't dare take a picture... My hands were too shaky anyway!

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NeverTrueLove's avatar

How many animals are on the farm

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hallie m. bertling, halthegal.'s avatar

i also love how NOT neat farm life is as opposed to a "hollywood ending." and it's So much more interesting, honestly. do you think western storytelling can ever shift to the eastern mindset of we-don't-actually-need-the-three/four-act-structure & it's-okay-if-the-beginning-and-ending-aren't-mirrors-or-each-other? :)

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Mara's avatar

Farm life seems more colorful than Hollywood it seems!

I'm really glad to see how your real experiences help make your writing develop.

I'm also loving your podcast so far!

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Elena's avatar

Oh this was such a funny story! Not sure if farm life could ever be for me haha

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Rory's avatar

On last week’s Plot Twist you said you didn’t name any of the farm animals…yet there seem to be an awful lot of named ones 🤨🤨

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Soman Chainani's avatar

Only the donkeys because they are family :)

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Rory's avatar
4dEdited

My mistake, of course they are 😍

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NeverTrueLove's avatar

What you said about stories is true they are tales of survival hence why oral tradition was really important from cavemen who made paintings so their descendants knew what to hunt to the Greek myths that still inspire stories like hades town that reflects global warming through orpehus/ eurydice and pershephone/ hades. Stories have always impacted how we see reality and how to endure it

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Soman Chainani's avatar

There's a great book about this -- PERMISSION by Elissa Altman

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NeverTrueLove's avatar

Great minds think alike

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𝓐fra 𝓜asud's avatar

Okay so Soman asked for a storytime, so I will deliver 🫡

My mom and I love each other very much. She's the closest person to me. There are very few things that I don't tell her about (one of which includes Substack), but I always thought that I could go to hear and that she would understand everything I had to say.

Very recently, something extremely terrible and disgusting happened to me. Someone in my immediate family asked me to do something that I am definitely NOT comfortable doing. I said No, and as soon as I could I told my mom, hoping that she would help me.

She listened to me, and nodded, and then a few minutes later she started talking very freely with them. I immediately felt hurt. I couldn't believe what was going on. So the next day, I told her that I don't feel comfortable with how comfortable she is with this family member, and she proceeded to tell me that I'm being selfish, and that this person was a very good and religious person and would never do what I "accused" them of. I never wanted to scream and cry louder in my life. I felt so hurt.

I haven't spoken to this family member for a long time. I don't want to. I still am trying to understand what to do.

I still love my mom and respect her so much. But I learned that people only want to see what they want to. Facts and the word of trustworthy sources don't really matter to people. Their beliefs about the world is what shapes their opinions, and sometimes they need hard core evidence to change that.

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Soman Chainani's avatar

Thank you for sharing this. Sometimes just in telling the story out loud, you start to make better sense of it and figure out the next steps. That Elissa Altman book I mentioned above might be good for you as well...

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𝓐fra 𝓜asud's avatar

Thank you! I'll definitely be reading it 💜

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