diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 90f584c..310867e 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# twitter\_ebooks 2.0.8
+# twitter\_ebooks 2.0.9
 
 Complete rewrite of twitter\_ebooks. Allows context-sensitive responsive bots via the Twitter streaming API, along with higher-quality ngram modeling. Still needs a bit of cleaning and documenting.
 
diff --git a/lib/twitter_ebooks/model.rb b/lib/twitter_ebooks/model.rb
index ef07c53..65f41a3 100755
--- a/lib/twitter_ebooks/model.rb
+++ b/lib/twitter_ebooks/model.rb
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ module Ebooks
 
     def make_statement(limit=140, generator=nil)
       responding = !generator.nil?
-      generator = SuffixGenerator.build(@sentences)
+      generator ||= SuffixGenerator.build(@sentences)
       tweet = ""
 
       while (tokens = generator.generate(3, :bigrams)) do
diff --git a/lib/twitter_ebooks/version.rb b/lib/twitter_ebooks/version.rb
index 0f2d7b7..0bf3701 100755
--- a/lib/twitter_ebooks/version.rb
+++ b/lib/twitter_ebooks/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Ebooks
-  VERSION = "2.0.8"
+  VERSION = "2.0.9"
 end