I was so excited to see that you're writing again. I've read both your pieces about getting over an ex, and I'm hoping you can talk me down here. Everything you've told other people makes sense, but I keep believing my ex and I deserve special pleading.

We started dating in high school, but this wasn't just a teenage fling. We stayed together all through college, even though we didn't attend the same school. We traveled together for weeks at a time, we visited her family at Christmas, we cooked

This season, having wrestled with his grief over Aimee-Leigh and received the forgiveness of his abandoned son, Baby Billy is free to concentrate on his next big idea: a blatant rip-off of Family Feud with questions about the Bible. We met recently over Zoom to discuss McBride’s unique comedic voice, why Goggins is so drawn to characters who strive for more, and, of course, Baby Billy’s Bible Bonkers. The following has been edited for length and clarity.

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I am not, generally speaking, a person who looks on the bright side of things. I view cheerfulness in the face of calamity with a lot of suspicion, if not outright contempt, and have done since childhood—I remember watching Pollyanna with my Nana and telling her that I wouldn’t like to be friends with a girl like that. Nevertheless, around this time last year, as it became clear I would have to spend some significant time staying in my apartment, I told myself there could be an upside: I could f