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Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout Podcasts for
the week of June fifth, twenty twenty

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three. I'm Terry Morrow and I'm
here with Nicole Heretics Hello, and Catherine

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Heleco Hello. Every week we chat
about what parents are talking, complaining,

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and obsessing about right now. This
week we're complaining about school photos and obsessing

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about New Year's resolutions. We also
take a couple of breaks for an entertainment

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discussion and a recommendation roundup. Today
we are talking about recent graduations that does

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not involve my family at all.
Our graduations are all old and far in

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the past. However, our little
podcast family here has had a couple in

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the past week. So who wants
to start with your graduation roundup? Y?

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Icole? Oh, Catherine, Okay, Yeah, So my son graduated

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from high school. As you may
recall, has been a a lot road.

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Although I'm not having beach ball up
into the air, we don't have

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the actual diploma in hand, but
he did show me his grades from this

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semester and they were really very good, wonderful. Um so yeah, it

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might have been his best, his
best semester ever. Yeah, so strong.

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So, although we don't have the
actual diploma. Um, that's coming,

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so you're you're fine. I feel
pretty okay about it at this time.

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Um, and yeah, and it
was it was a lot. It

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was a good day, you know. Um my parents came and my sister,

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so he had like a whole crew
here. Although my daughter wasn't able

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to be here his sister, but
everyone else was. And we also have

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family able to watch the live stream
and Terry, yeah, Terry was watching

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from New Jersey. Well I fast
forward till they got to him. But

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still it's nice to have that.
Yeah. Yeah, it's really nice that

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they do the live stream because they
limit the number of tickets. You know,

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the numbers couldn't take a suspense.
I wanted to make sure he got

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across the stage and took the hand. Yes, he sure did. And

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they have a lot data other events
they have where the kids go back to

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their elementary schools and are celebrated by
the little children and the teachers. That

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was cool, although my kid was
late and because of a transportation mix up,

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so that was very sad. I
was really a boomed. Your daughter

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didn't get to do it because of
COVID. She didn't get to do it.

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Um, he did make it there. But it was kind of after

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walking, like parading through the halls
and being able to like announce your plans

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and then you know, but he
did. He did get pictures with um,

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you know, a lot of his
his former classmates and his kindergarten teacher,

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who was very emotional. She was
like more emotional than than the parents.

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It was very cute because this was
her first class in that in that

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building. Oh wow. Um,
it wasn't her first year as a teacher,

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but it was. She had moved
to our town from out of states,

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and you know, this was her
first job in the district. So

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and they were her first kids,
so she was she was emotional. Yeah,

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And and but then you know,
like all the kids, most of

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the kids stayed and like took a
bunch of pictures on the playground and stuff.

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And my kid and one of his
friends was like, we gotta go,

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We're leaving. I was like,
don't leave, But he left,

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but he left. Because then the
next thing on the agenda was to have

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a parade around the school building,
the high school, which was something that

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they started during COVID, the COVID
year. They had a big parade,

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a much much longer one, yeah
for those kids because they didn't get anything

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else basically, So now they do
it abbreviated just basically around the school grounds

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like it's which is you know,
it's a pretty big campus so in those

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um, you know, it's like
a few city blocks when you get right

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down to it. Yeah. So
anyway, so they do a parade and

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it's like cars and sometimes people pull
trailers and sometimes people pull boats and they

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have you know, a bunch of
kids in the boat. One of Owen's

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friends they put like they somehow attached
a canoe to the back of their truck

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and the kids sat in the canoe
and paddled. It was super cute,

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and Owen rode like a mini little
dirt bike thing that belonged to one of

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his friends. So it was it
was cute, it was fun. We

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had a lot of fun watching that. It seemed like adorable Midwest traditions.

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We don't do those things. You
can't bring anything but your car to school

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thing. Where's a um it's different. Yeah, they didn't do anything but

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your car. At his school,
they did anything but a backpack day.

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Yeah, okay, And apparently the
track team did like the relay team did

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anything but a baton at like they
had a practice meat or something, and

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so they were like one had like
a traffic cone and stuff. But this

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is just a it's it was sort
of intended to be basically a car parade,

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but then people started getting a little
creative with pulling trailers and a kind

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of stuff. So yes, it
was it was a lot of fun.

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And then the actual ceremony and that
was nice. And really the only times

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that I actually teared up were when
my son's friend sang the national anthem and

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she she was amazing. I mean, you know how hard that song is,

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Like, yeah, it's really easy
to do it badly, but she

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did it beautifully and like with absolute
just confidence and you know, she just

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got up there and belted it out
and it was amazing. And then there

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was then the choir, which my
son is in, performed a song,

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and then the choir and the orchestra
did the Battle Him of the Republic together

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and it was very beautiful. So
those were the two times that I got

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a little bit eerie. But yeah, other than that, yeah, so

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so it was it was a good
time and it happened, so that was

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awesome. So yeah, well,
congratulations on thank you making it over the

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well almost at the finish line.
Got to get that diploma in your hand,

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but yes were his hand anyway?
Yes, but do have the cover,

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you know, the folder that they
give me, the empty folder that

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they give you. We have can
they like to take a picture of it

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and send it to you before you
have to go? Actually, right,

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it'll be soon. Just text me
yea yeah, yeah, well just a

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few more days until yes, that's
great and then on to college adventures afterwards.

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Yes, which my daughter has just
completed, yesh, my goodness.

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Yeah, well her first round right
yeah, um, yeah, she had

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hers last week. A week ago. We were we all flew up to

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Vancouver, British Columbia, and yeah, it was a beautiful day. Oh

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my gosh. We left out because
you know, it rains a lot in

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Vancouver, so you usually just prepare
for the rain and and then it's like

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a pleasant surprise when it's sunny.
Right, So Vancouver was on its best

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behavior that day and it was lovely
and yeah, I mean it required a

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lot of orchestration on our part because
we had my parents coming, my son

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and his girlfriend, my daughter's boyfriend, plus my daughters for best friends from

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like her first year university. They've
been best friends throughout. But we only

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had tickets for three people. Oh
I hate that, so we had to

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you know, hop on. They
released unused tickets at midnight the night before.

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It was just such a ridiculous system. We all hopped on and commandeered

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the system and managed to get you
know, twelve tickets or whatever it was

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that we needed. And I'm sure
we're really unhappy with us, but we

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we managed to get them. So
everybody was able to go, which was

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another plus. And it was held. So my dad went to the same

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university, graduated from the same university
I went there. I graduated from that

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university, and it was Kristen's turn, so it was kind of a it

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was it was a pretty cool um
moment because yeah, you know, and

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just even comparing like when I graduated, what that was like. Yeah,

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And they had moved it into a
performing arts theater, so it was a

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lot more small, intimate, and
they broke the classes a lot more and

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just had it spread out over more
days. So the venue itself is lovely

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gorgeous, and it was very intimate
and um, yeah, and so it

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was just really like it was under
an hour, if you can believe that.

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Wow. Like they literally got up
there, said some words and then

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just started graduates. No nonsense,
no nonsense whatsoever. And we had a

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really nice we were in a good
spot to see her. M yeah,

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and so and then afterwards we had
photos. UBC is very like lush and

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green, and so we found this
hedge with these gorgeous flowers and we're able

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to get some nice pictures. And
then we all went out, if you

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could believe this, for Mexican,
after Mexican and Vancouver. So yeah,

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we went out and celebrated and kind
of and she actually surprisingly got her degree

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right then and there. She didn't
get like a place her type bold you

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know, yeah got her She got
her degree right then and there. And

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yeah, so it was kind of
fun and um. And so she has

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since announced that she is going to
go back next September and she wants to

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start in her school September, like
three months from now or a year September

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in a year, kay. Yeah, So she has she has just signed

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up for her first prerequisite course,
which is anatomy. So this girl,

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she can't get enough of cool,
I'm telling you. Wow. So her

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ultimate goal is to get into nursing, so we'll see how that plays out.

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So I said, I'll pay for
your birds degree, but I'm not

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doing so we will have future graduations
to talk about, apparently. Yes,

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we're gonna have it more. And
my sons is next year. He just

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finished his third year. Yea,
this is coming up next year, so

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yes, they too, has a
couple more too. Yes, your daughter

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is coming up to Yeah, well
she's gonna do the five year plans,

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so she's she's got two more years
of college, so endless stream of graduations.

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We are completely out of the graduation
business at my house. And you

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are very fortunate. Yes, not
unhappy about that either. Oh it's a

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very expensive venture, yes, very
stressful. It was. It's entertaining,

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Like as you said, you know, they just started handing them out right

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away. And and at my son's
school, of course, they have it

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down to a science. You know, I've done it so many times,

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right, But we were laughing because
they you know, they had the kids

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like process in and they had like
four entry points to where their seats were

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right, so like two would come
in from the left and two would come

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in from the right, and they
would walk to the back of the rows

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of seats and then you know,
they would go down the different aisles,

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and they had a teacher who was
standing there like like an air traffic controller,

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just like or the marshal, you
know, with the sticks like when

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it was because they wanted them all
four to walk to set off together,

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you know, like they they waited
until they were all standing at the back

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together, and then she would like
drop her hand like a flag, and

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then those four would go and then
the next four would approach. And wow,

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they really are I don't know why
they're so concerned about this, but

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I mean because they had them sitting
in a specific order and yeah, but

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they still also had to have like
a little piece of paper with their name

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on it to give to the announcer. So I don't know why they had

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to be so strict about where they
were sitting, but yeah, whatever,

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who cares. And they set aside
like two and a half hours for them

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to practice it before. Wow,
they did not use all that time.

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But yeah, really, are are
they going to need that anyway? A

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lot of moving parts? Yes,
yeah, yes it is so, but

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we're very excited that it has come
and gone. Yes, and now it's

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just parties every It's like every weekend
all summer long. And I bought a

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pack of graduation you know, congratulations
cards in bowl for all of these good

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idea, all of these events.
So yeah, well, so that's it

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for today's round one. As we
said, there will be more graduation talk

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years in the future, so for
now we shall commence on that's right.

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Tune in tomorrow for our entertainment themed
round two and later in the week to

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find out what we're complaining about,
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