It wasn’t until my mid-thirties, however—after I had launched the Read-Aloud Revival podcast and even sometime after it had acquired its first million downloads—that I realized I had become what I’d always wanted to be, after all. I didn’t broadcast on radio. I never went to school for journalism or communications. The word podcast didn’t even exist back on that birthday when I sat chatting with my hero over cherry Cokes and a basket of bottomless fries. All the same, I now had a job talking on a podcast that aired for families all over the world. If I could have told my seventh grade self
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