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• White Collar 2x05 ‘Unfinished Business’: I loved this episode. It was my favourite of the season. ( a short list of likes )

• There’s this ridiculous dating show on GSN who’s name I don’t know, though I have seen it before, in which the main person is given several options to date, each of them with their own ‘baggage’. As their ‘baggage’ is revealed the options are narrowed down until the main person picks one of them. Then it’s turned around and the main person’s baggage is revealed and the person they chose has to in turn choose them. I caught the end of an episode as I making something to eat. After she picked a guy the woman’s ‘baggage’ was revealed to be either a) ‘she faked a serious illness to get money from an ex’, b) ‘worked as a stripper’, or c) her father is a woman. When asked before the reveal which he would have the most trouble with he responded 'a' which was the one that bothered me too.

The answer was c) and I loved how it all played out from that point. The woman stated that her father, Alexis, was transgender and a very important part of her life. So important that they talk every day, they’re best friends, and she could never date someone who couldn’t accept her dad. What I loved was that she called her dad both ‘her’ when she talked and ‘my father’. And then she brought her out and introduced her and he accepted her baggage (though he stated his family was conservative). I just loved the... normalisation of Alexis’s transgender status by her daughter.

Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire

I finished the first book in the October Daye series and I enjoyed it.

I did have a couple issues.

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