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Hello listeners, I have got

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a podcast recommendation that I think you

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are going to love. Dan and Nancy

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reside in the peaceful suburbs just outside

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of Portland, where they're living out their

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golden years. And though they

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met later on in life, their marriage

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spans over two decades, and they're seen

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as pillars of the community. It's

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a love story pulled right off the

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shelf. Nancy is a struggling

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romance novelist. She likes to write

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about betrayals, sex, and even murder.

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Dan is a chef and culinary

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instructor. He enjoys foraging

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through the woods for fresh mushrooms

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and growing edible flowers. But

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when Dan is shockingly found dead in his

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classroom, Nancy's once simple

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life is turned upside down. Because

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as the investigation unfolds, Nancy

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finds herself at the center of a murder

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case that could be ripped straight from the

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pages of her own novels. Now

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I'm about to play you a clip

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from Happily Never After, Dan and Nancy.

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Follow Happily Never After, Dan and Nancy

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on the Wondery app or wherever you get your

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podcasts. And enjoy. Nicole

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Herman was lounging on a beach

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in Croatia with a perfect

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view of the ocean. It

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looks a lot like Oregon, with the exception

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that the water is like turquoise. It

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was nice and sunny. Exactly

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how Nicole pictured her honeymoon.

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Nicole's new husband got up to take a

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swim, but she didn't join him.

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She was in the middle of a novel. The

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man on the book cover had

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a square jaw and a come hither

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stare. All day,

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Nicole had just been waiting to

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get back to him. He

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Sat on the floor and gestured for her to

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sit between. Blaze. Issue

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with her boyfriend, homework

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and models. And unloaded. Each

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of fans are you showing me this

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So I can tell my husband. Travels.

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Still close season each word with

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care. Maybe in the beginning

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humid summer down? But

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you just another this and. He

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will know a hundred ways to kill you. Make

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a look like an accident. Sukuk.

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Her forehead against us and cursor

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i didn't meet in like you.

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And route of humor and dragging me

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and. A

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lesson day. He

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nieces and. He he.

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He do. And he's your body until

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I leave. Scandalous.

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That was probably rating anywhere from one hundred and

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fifty. It have three and are paid as a

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diet. Nicole had

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been rented out on the beach

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for hours reading. She was already

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on book number two. Enough wrong.

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Never been so great. Serious. And

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she was determined to get through all

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five bucks by the end of her

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trap. Every book was more or less

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the same burly. Former Navy Seal

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comes. To the rescue Us beautiful

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young woman on the run from. Her

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dangerous husband. It was an

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odd choice of reading for

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our honeymoon put away from

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the beaches of Croatia back

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home in Portland, Oregon, Nicole

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was a deputy District Attorney.

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Those are things. As a prosecutor

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that you sometimes want to get ahead. As

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and and front as and for

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months she and her team had

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been trying to solve. A

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murder. Or progress

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had been slow. To

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Rights evidence kept alluding them.

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As the pressure mounted Nicole and

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her team had turned to and

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unlikely lead a series of romance.

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novels written by the dead

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man's wife. It was a

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little bit meta in terms of what

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we were dealing with. Her books were

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packed with details borrowed from their own

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lives as a local Portland chef and

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a romance novelist. Details

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that the DA's had no other way to

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get their hands on. So

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now Nicole was doing homework on

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her honeymoon. I

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wasn't so sure there would truly be

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anything, but it was sort

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of in the back of my mind, what if

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something similar to this has played out in

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one of her novels and it's all written

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right there for us to find. More shirts

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were going to be unbuttoned. More

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dresses were going to get unzipped.

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And every new chapter, every

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new scene, could potentially

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be the one to crack the murder

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case that was waiting for her back

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home. Like

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that? I thought you would binge

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