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Well, yeah. My parents, you know, everything was very local. So I think a lot of Charlestonians love this. It's shad roe, which is really hard to get. It's, you know, the roe of a shad fish. And I hated that.

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They would have that all the time, too.

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Wow. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I mean, I decided it was, listen, I think I'm incredibly lucky to have been able to be home with our children. But Stephen's hours were really long and difficult. And I felt that I just wanted to be home with them when I could. So I ended up spending a lot of my time as a stay-at-home mother, which I had never expected to do. And it was real privilege.

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Yeah, I think there were sacrifices. I had trained to be an actress, and I decided not to be an actress even before we got married. But then later in life, I had opportunities to do some performing, which I chose frequently not to do because it would take me out of town, and I felt that our family needed somebody at home.

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I mean, I don't in any way want to suggest I ever felt cheated because it was such a privilege to be able to have the life I had. I feel incredibly lucky that I was with my children. I mean, even though Stephen had a busy job, he wasn't gone. He just came home late. So we were always together as a family. And in show business, that's super unusual.

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So I think we've had an incredibly lucky time, frankly. Very blessed.

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Hell with the family. Yeah. I had someone say to me once, Terry, that I think is so funny. I guess you'd been doing the Colbert pour for a year or two, Stephen. Yeah. I was chairing a book fair in our kids' school, and there was an author who said that she wanted to meet me because I was Stephen's wife. And I remember saying to my friend, my life is just getting really weird. This is just weird.

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And she turned to me and said, the life you ordered has arrived. And I thought it was such a funny way, but it is true. It all comes as a package, right? If you want to be a performer or if you want to be an artist and with fame comes attention, comes opportunity, but also comes sacrifice of some way.

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Probably on mine, too, actually. I mean, I was lucky enough to have had my father for a long time. He just passed away this past April. And at his funeral, when I delivered the eulogy, I mentioned how as a little girl, I used to like to put my feet in my father's footprints on the sand. And I think metaphorically, that's how I felt about him.

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I admired my father so much that I always wanted to try to live up to be the person he was. And the same for my mother. I hit the jackpot with my parents. I really love them. And I think for me, it wasn't being a model child. cared about the community that they lived in and gave of themselves and their time to make the world a better place in whatever way they could.

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And my parents were both selfless, community active. They did a lot in the town of Charleston.

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It is.

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Yeah. Oh, I don't know. I mean, my favorite recipe in the book is the one that we start with, my mother's cheese biscuits, because those were things that she made always. And so now when I make them, I feel like she's with me and it's comforting. And I love them. They're wonderful to give and they're delicious and fattening. I think comfort food should be fattening.

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Smell is powerful. I think we both enjoyed that rediscovery of recipes that we'd grown up with, which we maybe had made them in our adulthood, but not really spent time with them the way we spent time with them writing this book.