Q. Did you play Epson Tour?
ALYAA ABDULGHANY: Championship, yes.
Q. Okay. So after playing that, then quite sometime break. Now at Stage II. What's the mindset?
ALYAA ABDULGHANY: I feel good. We got about a month off. It was a nice reset. Coming back, we got different conditions since last year, so we're just putting one foot forward, one step at a time, and hope for the best.
Q. How did you rest, recover, during the time before here?
ALYAA ABDULGHANY: Let's see, I slept. No, I did a lot of recovery rehab, just getting the body ready. In my off time I read a lot of books.
Q. What kind of books?
ALYAA ABDULGHANY: I'm kind of swaying a little bit more towards fantasy right now. I was in fiction, but I currently am reading -- oh, dear -- Mistborn, the Secret History by Brandon Sanderson. It's a small novella for the Mistborn trilogy.
Q. Do you think that genre help you escape?
ALYAA ABDULGHANY: 100%. 100% escape-ism for me right now. But it's nice. I get to only think about golf when I'm on the golf course and then once I'm done, I'm done.
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