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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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Media's time now for our community connection
right here on K one, the

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one you trust is being brought to
you by Tall Grass Motors, Wesley and

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Kiddey College, get Real Ministries and
Armmore and the Camp Funeral Home. And

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today we have the Salvation Army.
In with this, we have Tanya and

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Monica. And how are we doing, ladies? Well, doing great?

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That is I'm standing up right.
It's hot, It's very hot. It

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is hot. My goodness, Monica, I don't know you very well.

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We just met a little bit ago. Tell me a little bit about yourself.

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Well, I'm the regional resource development
director for this area. That's just

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a fancy way of saying I'm I'm
the fundraiser for Bartlesville. The Salvation Army

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has me all over the countryside meeting
with the nicest people in the world,

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and those are the people who help
support the work that they do with the

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Salvation Army. Well, you're not
going to find too many nicer than Tany

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and Luke. That's right, that's
right. I know. Yeah, we're

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very very happy to have Lieutenant Luke
and Lieutenant Tanya here in Bartlesville. They

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do great work. As a matter
of fact, she's going to talk to

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us this morning about the work they
did in responding to the disasters recently.

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Oh, we've had plenty of them. Yeah, yeah, tell us about

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it. We had the well May
sixth, that's the one the pit Barnstall

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and everything. Right, So that
week, you know, that next day

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actually we were out here in Bartlesville
on the community and we were able to

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for that for that week, we
were able to serve what was it,

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twenty six hundred meals wow. Yeah. And the really great part too about

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that was we were able to over
two hundred and forty people. We were

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able to just give some emotional and
spiritual care and actually talk to them and

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pray with them, and so that
was really that was really great. Well,

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you know, at a time like
this, this is when Salvation Army

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really rises to the challenge and responds
to the need of the human condition.

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Yeah, compassion, feeling, feeling
them with food, and also trying to

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fill them a little bit with the
spirit too. Yeah, And so we

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try to do, you know,
just try to love on them and smile

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and just you know, whatever help
you can give them whatever. Yeah,

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and sometimes sometimes they just want to
just talk and just to tell what they're

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feeling, you know. And and
we definitely can see that that week of

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just just the look on their faces
was they just needed to talk and it

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was it was nice to be able
to be there for them to do that

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and to pray and that sometimes that's
all you can do when your home has

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just been leveled. It's not only
the officers that show up. One of

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the things that we're grateful for are
the number of volunteers that show up.

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People who have been volunteering with the
Salvation Army for years and years. They

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just show up. They do you
know, you have to call them.

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They just seem to know what's going
on. They just show up and they

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and they call you or you know, and they're very They're just very good

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about coming out and saying, hey, what can we do, do you

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need anything? Or blessed with the
volunteers and just the people in the community.

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This is a rather unique community.
There are some similar to Martinsville,

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but I've lived in a lot of
places in my life and time, but

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this one, the hands are there
and also the wallets are there too to

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help. Definitely, definitely they are. Yeah, everybody rolls up their sleeves

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and says, what do you need? Yeah, here you go. I

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love that. Yeah. And of
course we have not only the individuals but

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the companies here in Bartlesville that we
are just ready to support when necessary.

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So we were pleased with the kind
of reaction that community that support. Wonderful.

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We've got a special thing coming up, don't we we do we do.

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It is the Bartlesville Ladies Connection,
Girls Not Out and it's going to

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be July eleventh at Pater Rosa.
Yes. Yeah, this is the one

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where all the ladies. It's the
community connection where the ladies bring things that

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the Salvation Army needs. And so
we're really thankful for that. Last year

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I was able to go and they
just brought all kinds of food, canned

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foods and all kinds of stuff of
the food pantry. And this year we

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are asking actually for items for the
Red Shield Club, the kids, you

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know, because we're wanting to increase
our number in the kids. And we've

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done really good so far of getting
that number up a little more this summer

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with our day camp and we've been
having a blast with them and uh so

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you know, more kids. The
more, the more supplies you're gonna need.

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And we do lots of crafts and
games and and trips and uh we

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we like to give them little treats, you know, popcorn, snow cones

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and and you know all the things
that go with that. Well would be

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really helpful. There's always something happened
at the citadel, right right, Yes,

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that's right. I think this year
what they need, they've put out

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kind of a list of things that
they need and we might just run over

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that. If if there's something on
this list that you've got, drop it

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by the core over on Boosy.
Oh yes, okay, just bring it

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by all right, And what are
some of the things they need, Well,

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we're needing snow cone cups. As
I said, we'd like to give

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them snow cones throughout the day.
Sometimes we were needing the popcorn. You

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know, if if anyone knows of
a good place to find a popcorn machine.

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I was just told that ours is
dying own. It's not good corn

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machine. So and then we have
just different craft items baby wipes, glue,

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big gallons of glue, you know, and borax, baking soda.

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Those are for like different you know, experiment stuff. We're doing pull noodles,

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balloons, sugar, sailine solution,
butcher paper, butcher paper large those

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are nice, yeah, and so
yeah, and then everything else you could

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think of that, you know,
sidewalk tracks like that, Yeah, things

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that goes. Yeah, I can't
tell you how many times I never really

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saw the sidewalk in the sum Yeah, pretty nice. How many kids do

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we have in the program this year? Well, we had originally we had

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like forty, around forty registered,
but I think the number has a little

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bit as some of them have,
you know, for whatever reason, you

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know, summer happens, you know, and not all the kids end up

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coming. But then we've had summer
school too. But those those kids are

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like half you know, half half
there and half there, and and so

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I think it's probably around we're we're
estimating probably around thirty to thirty three somewhere

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there. But that's still a good
number. And they're there all day yeah,

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and they're they're all day four oh
gosh. So yeah, that's a

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lot. It's it's fun. And
we're going to be having a VBS for

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our kids there too at the end
of July. So we're gearing up for

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that and yeah, and so we
uh, this is really cool. They

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recently had a tour here. Yes, yes, yeah, that was.

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That was like one of my favorite
tour groups here. I mean they were

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they were just locked in. They're
like, wow, what is all this

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stuff? They all winking and Lincoln
and all these things, and then people

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are talking Wow. You know you
can just see the awe in their eye.

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It was pretty Oh yeah, I
mean I never I would have I'd

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never experienced like something as a kid, and I thought it would be you

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know, that would be great.
And so when we were given that opportunity,

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I thought, yes, they will
love this so and they did.

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They loved hearing their voice. Our
buddy, mister Joe, he did it

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so wonderful. He lets them hear
their voices on the rail on the radio.

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They recording in a very fast on
like chipmunks, and then they all

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he also slowed it down so they
heard a really voice and so they thought

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that was just great. Well,
you know, I Joe and I ken

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an awful lot. He and I
are the same age, but he just

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acts a heck of a lot younger
than I ever will. And because he

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never really lost that that child spirit
you know, and I envy him for

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that. But the way he worked
with the kids, I said, they're

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good on you. Yeah, he
did really well. We're really appraid those

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kids were so well behaved. And
I got to tell you they they really

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were here like they've been someplace that
really that really made us feel pretty good.

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Yeah. Yeah, it was a
big deal to the kids. Yeah,

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that's great and it's absolutely super What
else we got cooking? And I

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shouldn't be saying that in this heat? No, No, although it feels

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like it when it does feel like
you're cooking. Yeah, I've said when

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you open the door, it feels
like you're checking on something in the oven.

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That's exactly, thats exactly. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. Anything

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else happening that we need to prize
everybody about, well, I think you

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know, every day at the Salvation
Army something's happening. And it's not only

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with the kids, but it's with
social services. We help people in Bartlesville

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with you know, covering their utility
bills and taking care of the food pantry,

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and every day pretty hard. Every
day, you know, we reach

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out and help our neighbors and friends, and you know, it's kind of

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like the homelessness prevention that we are
focused in on. I think July is

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our utility month, where you know, we encourage people to put that little

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extra on their utility bill to help
with the amount that comes to social services

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to help with utilities. And all
year long, that's kind of what we

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do. What was it last year, seven and twenty seven people in Bartlesville

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were helped by the Salvation Army.
That's a lot of people. That is

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a lot of people of our Yeah. Wow. So four thousand and two

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meals were served to the hungry,
one thousand and three food boxes were provided,

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three hundred and thirty five people were
helped in financial assistance. So every

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day we're you know, there helping
people get through the hardest day of their

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life. One thing I have to
say about the Salvation Army, no matter

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where I've been, your folks are
about the humblest You don't go out there

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beating your chest and hey, look
at us. We just just go about

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our business and we help folks,
and everybody just kind of keeps it on

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the down low and and the world
goes on, and you know, and

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I think if more and more of
us adopted that philosophy, instead of doing

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it for the glory and the high
light and the headline, we'd an'll probably

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be living a better life. Yeah, so you guys kind of teach without

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using words some days. Thank you. That's so nice. Thank you.

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Well, that's that's just an observation
from an old man. Well, well,

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you know, I think and I
think everybody knows us by the kettle,

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you know. Yeah, yeah,
but we'll we'll probably be back on

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and talk about, you know,
our upcoming plans for the Red Kettle kickoff.

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We're going to try to bring back
the Red Kettle dinner this year.

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Nice and so I'm excited for that. We are very excited for fun.

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Yeah, we're anticipating having fun with
that, right. Yeah. And of

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course, if anybody wants to help
you out right now, you know,

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while we're thinking about it, it's
pressure in mind. Can we just go

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to the website or can we just
drop by a check and say, if

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somebody's got ten thousand dollars in the
pocket, just burn a hole in it.

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I mean that would be great,
absolutely, that would be pet.

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Your address there one on one North
Avenue, so easy to find. Drop

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it in the mail, drop it
by the office, Come by and see

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us. Yeah, you would love
to to see us. Yeah, I'd

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love to chat chat. Yeah.
Well, ladies, it's been wonderful having

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you both on here. Thank you
for having us alrighty, thank you,

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