Bess Bell Kalb is one of my favorite authors. I was deeply moved by her book "Nobody Will Tell You This But Me," and almost as equally moved by her first children's book "Buffalo Fluffalo."

In this episode Bess and Bethany talk about their shared background, and Bess discusses her new book and the scary experience she went through giving birth to her second child.

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