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the Affordable Connectivity Program. Congratulations to
the Wesleyan Christian School graduating class of twenty

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twenty three. As you take the
next steps in life and survey the many

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options and choices that lay ahead,
remember to seek first a Kingdom of God,

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and all things you need and desire
will be added unto you. From

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the Wesleyan Christian School staff. Congratulations
to Nieva Ashlock, Craig Boorton, Nick

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Burke, Chase Cottner, David Good, Jarla Poudie, Jordan Heskin, Rachel

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Hopkins, Joseph Jones, Matthew Marquez, Austin Rigden, Brady Rutger, Drew

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Wright and Jackson Zamora, Dignity,
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Crematory, Bartlesville, Nowada, Barnstall, Hey w and Bartlesville to twenty seventy

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Q Bartlesville, KY two thirty six
ct POSCA. And now here's mister Tom

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David. So it's the Wesleyan Christian
Graduation much and it's being brought to you

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in part by wesley And Christian School, Wesleyan Kinney College. Also we're brought

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to you by Barton and I P. Kimmins sheet Metal and No wanna Duncan

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your farm bureau agent. We're getting
ready to begin in just mere moments.

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It's been a stellar year for this
group of small but mighty seniors. They

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saw a lot of cool things this
year, and their sports teams really he

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did well and academically well, they're
at the time they're the cream of the

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crop when it comes to that as
well. We now begin our ceremony right

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here on K one, the one
you trust, dear teachers, honored guests,

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families, and fellow WCS graduates.
My name is Matthew Marquez, and

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it is my great honor to stand
before all of you on this momentous occasion

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as we celebrate the graduating class of
twenty twenty three. I know all of

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us are excited to finally graduate,
and there's nowhere I'd rather be than right

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here representing this class. It goes
without saying that all of us could not

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have done this alone. So thank
you to everyone here, to those who

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could not attend, and everyone else. I know many of my fellow graduates

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for expecting me to write a funny
speech filled with jokes. However, I

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was told that inspiring speeches were more
appropriate for a valedictorian to give, and

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I now understand that high school graduation
is a serious matter and potentially the peak

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of some of our lives. So
I edited this speech and presenting the serious

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version without the five pages of jokes
about Brady. So to the twelve other

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graduates here, classmates and close friends
that share this stage with me today,

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mark's an important milestone in our lives. It is an end of an era

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for us, and as we look
towards the future, we should not forget

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the journey that led us here.
From now on when we look back on

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today, we can finally say we
made it. So I don't think the

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serious thing is going to work out. Let me really start from the beginning.

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Dear fellow graduates, teachers that gave
us all that homework, and the

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guests we might know, also the
family that we were forced to invite.

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I was required to stand here before
you and speak of this graduation. Still,

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thank you to everyone who could attend, and to those of you who

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couldn't. You can still send money
and the special thanks to last year's senior

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class because you guys made us look
way better. To the twelve graduates that

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share the stage with me, also
known as the people I was forced to

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group to do group projects with,
we made it. And although I'm the

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one up here giving the speech,
all of us have worked hard and are

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successful at different things. Many of
us have putting countless hours working on our

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different passions. Rachel has worked hard, and you're a scholarship for volleyball.

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Chase and Drew both have successful businesses
that they run. Jordan runs a ranch

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and works out a lot firm,
and Devey has been going to school for

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cosmetology. Brady, well, we're
not sure about him. Yet twelve of

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my classmates that put in so much
hard work and time studying and practicing sports,

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it's finally time to enter the new
challenge of college. But your gifts,

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talents, and work will finally be
rewarded and as scholarships you received to

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attend university. There are also those
that got esport scholarships. I have somewhat

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of a reputation for being bad at
answering my calls or texts, so some

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of my friends say that I disappear
every summer and don't respond to anyone.

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I'm not sure that these accusations are
justified, but they disagree. It might

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be partially my fault because every year
when school gets out, I promised to

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stay in touch, to hang out, and to answer my phone more.

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But sometimes that doesn't pan out.
It seems like every time life gets in

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the way. It's not like I
was ignoring your messages because I don't think

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you have something important to say,
or I just saw your messages and acted

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like it was never there. Okay, that probably is the reason, but

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regardless, this year is different.
There is no next year to come back

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to. That's why I'm making this
offer to you and promise to follow through

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this time. This time will be
different. If any of you call or

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message me after today, I promise
you I will not answer. Okay,

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I can't end with that, so
I'll end on a serious note. I

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want to thank all of you for
being part of such an amazing class.

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I truly believe our class was something
special and unlike any other class graduating here.

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I'm honored to be part of this
class, and as we go into

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the next chapters of our lives,
remember this. Hold onto your dreams,

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stay true to your beliefs, and
never lose sight of the plant God has

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for you. Good evening, graduates, family, friends, and Westland Christian

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School faculty, thank you for being
here today. My name is Nivea Ashlock

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and it is an honor to be
able to speak this evening on behalf of

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Westland Christian Schools graduating class of twenty
twenty three, all whopping thirteen of us.

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Before I begin, I would like
to relieve you all of some dread

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by letting you know that because of
our humongous class size, you will not

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be stuck here all night, listening
to names being called for hours upon hours

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just to hear the announcement of the
one name that you came here for.

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So the good news is that hopefully
this will be a quick, compainless event.

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Now I would like to take a
moment to say a special thanks to

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all the roles every one of you
have played on our journeys up until this

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moment. We would not be here
today about to walk across this stage if

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it wasn't for the many sacrifices,
encouragement, support and love that we have

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received from you at some point in
some way. So thank you again for

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all that you have done. As
the last class to experience COVID in high

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school, or as my Papa calls
it, the COVID, I feel it

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necessary to give a brief special thanks
to the teachers who believed us when we

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had network problems during our eight am
zoom calls. And another special thanks to

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the teacher who took our word for
it when we promised we were keeping up

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with our Shakespeare reading assignments. Now
Here, we are sitting in the same

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black fold up chairs that we have
sat in for the last four years,

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the same chairs in which we have
heard countless lectures, participated in endless academic

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discussions, and been given many assignments
that we knew we'd be staying up till

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midnight to complete, but also the
same chairs that we have sat in and

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laughed till our stomach's hurt, cheered
after as in that exam and intimately discussed

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our relationships with God and others,
growing together as one body of Christ.

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If high school has taught us anything, it is that times in the fact

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that these are long and years are
short, and what once seemed like an

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endless moment of laughter becomes a short
clip memory. Doctor SEUs once said,

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sometimes you will never know the value
of a moment until it becomes a memory.

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High school has left us with numerous
memories, and it is up to

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us to use the lessons we have
learned from those memories to pave the way

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for our success in our future.
C Sis also once said, they are

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far far better things ahead than any
we leave behind. So as we go

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forward, it is important that we
do not take the moments we have failed,

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learned, grown, and succeeded for
granted, because they are what have

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firmed us into the individuals who are
now entering the world. Fellow graduates,

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I would like to give you some
encouragement in first Timothy four twelve, Paul

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writes to say, do not let
anyone look down on you because you are

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young, but set an example for
the believers in speech, in conduct,

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in love, in faith, and
impurity. While entering a world full of

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differing opinions, world views, and
cultures. Always remember your impact on the

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world will be determined by your love
for God and for others. Although we

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are beginning this new chapter as young
new adults, we have the power to

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let all right shine into the lives
of others. So even when you feel

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that you may not be capable of
doing something God is calling you to do,

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whether it be because of your age, your position, or any other

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circumstances, just do it. God
is working on our behalf if we are

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willing to allow it. So trusting
him and He will make your path straight.

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Now, as we are sitting here
in the same old black fold up

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chairs, back about to walk across
the stage and receive a sweaty handshake and

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a piece of paper from mister Landers
that will release us into the world.

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I would first like to challenge you. I want to challenge you to remember

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and reflect on the memories that you've
formed you into who you are today.

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Acknowledge your strengths, acknowledge your weaknesses, and going forward, allow God to

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use every part of who you are
to pay out his plan for your life.

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I wish you all the very best. Congratulations, Class of twenty twenty

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three. We did it, and
we did it well. I'm never turning

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boy and boxed up in the road. Don wrapt you by the restrect you

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went to go, So make the
best off. Thissn't known, That's why

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it's not a question, daughter,
lasn't learned it. Time put something dredtable

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in the under's right. I help
you at the time of your life.

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So take the fat out that since
their friends enjoying mine and in honor shove

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them, got out them. Get
time that Jesus mands get on chilm body.

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Try of the wilds. Something that
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time by your line. That's something
that intent an in the end of that

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tide, at the time of your
mind. Something on the wall right,

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help you have the dime of your
life. So talk to Don about the

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rest of my lives never gonna be
when you turned twenty five, keep thinking

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time to ever change, keep going
down and convince will always be the same.

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You will be coming back. No
hanging down is what I want to

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do. The track and even God
something that she needs to say. You're

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being to see right down to you
having down the days I want to be

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keep so down his man. He's
saying, like few without summer night,

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keep making on the night in you. I didn't know what you love that

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keep you shooting, and he see
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home to home until Phoney get so
excited, him to get so scared.

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I'm laughing at Sis, thinking that's
not fair. I'm so crazy as we

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come on we meet back all the
time to me and you can't sage hell

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still me. I'm told now think
about tomorrow like we think about now.

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Can we survive it that bed?
Can we make it somehow? I guess

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I thought this will never end,
and suddenly, like the mam in,

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I will ask be a shadow that
fallow us round and will smell of his

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game when I meet this channel.
I keep keep thinking that to keep back

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into time to fly as we read
all the time that you we just still

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all the time to change. I
don't know what you can talk Thomas on

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it. I don't need to take
a soul. I stepping to your tale

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to talk. I should be scanned
on your ny so I making any ninety

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rods. I ain't running swimming in
the class, Am bay. I ain't

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worried that I I don't know to
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I was spending like go. I'm
never like a magine. I'm not requires

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even the number. I'm my mother's
manners something. I'm wanting to see it

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into many bubble bottles and bottoms of
feeling the accession for succession with seeing the

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gear. I'm thinking and I ain't
running making many ninety worlds. Child.

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I worried. It's my privilege to
introduce tonight's speaker. I met this young

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man when he was second, third, fourth grade, I can't remember an

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elementary school. And then he came
to h I was his principal for four

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or five years, and then he
came when he came back, he taught

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under me for three or four years. And I can honestly say that he's

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probably said less than a thousand words
to me in the entire time. But

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I learned that he doesn't speak very
often. When he does, you need

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to listen because he's pretty wise,
and I think this class has learned that

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too, so please help me.
The welcome Cameron Middleton. By the way,

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I didn't know who was reading and
wasn't so I saw your scores.

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But I'm if you haven't run mc
McBeth, you need to because it's pretty

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fun. But thank you mister Cloud
and mister Landers for having me. I'm

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really honored to be here with this
class on me the fourth, a very

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important day in my life and for
people like me, you know, the

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nerds. A few weeks ago,
Jackson was at my house and came to

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get some firewood because we had in
the windstorms, we had a bunch of

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trees fall down. And he told
me that this was a couple of days

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after I had been chosen to speak, and he told me the class pick

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me for two reasons. They didn't
want someone to give a forty five minute

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sermon, and they wanted someone to
make fun of Brady. So I can

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guarantee you on the first one and
the second one. Sometimes it just slips

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out, okay, So speaking in
graduation, I said yes, because it's

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actually a really low pressure situation.
I don't know if you're like me,

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or maybe you're not. But I've
been to like probably a dozen graduations of

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high school and college and I can't
tell you what anybody said at any of

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them, any of the speakers.
At my own graduation, I had a

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relative that was speaking and I don't
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right there. So the good news
for me is there's pretty low pressure,

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low stakes. My goal then,
with that in mind, is I'm not

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going to come up here and give
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of before, because that's just probably
unlikely. What I do want to do

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is encourage you, and this time
and this season, as you move to

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a new step, a new chapter, I want to encourage you and maybe

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hopefully tell you some things that will
ring true for you, maybe not this

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year, but hopefully in the years
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sorry, I'm really hearing this at
these guys, I hope that what

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I say ring true for you also, but my focus is on them.

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so we're gonna get out of here
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that, though, I'm gonna break
a rule that I know I told you

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when I was your English teacher.
And I'm gonna say up front, i

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am not an expert. Okay,
when he wrote papers you weren't supposed to

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do that. I'm gonna break the
rule. I'm not an expert. I'm

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not a pastor. I'm not a
life coach. I'm not some wise old

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man who sits on his tree stump
and like gives out fortune cookie stuff.

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All I am is someone who's spent
quite a few years with this class,

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and who mostly enjoyed that time,
and who is rooting for them now as

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they move forward. It wasn't all
that long ago that I was sitting in

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your seat. We did a little
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our own row, so that's cool. But as I was thinking back about

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what to say and thinking about how
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kind of focused on some things I
wish someone would have told me when I

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was in your seat. And you
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I like to pick a word or
a phrase for each season. That

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was just I'm a words guy.
I'm an English ranger. And so as

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I thought about, like, what's
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The word that kept coming back to
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season of your lives, it's kind
I've already started and it will continue,

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is one of great opportunity. Graduation
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anyone maybe told you, but it
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to demonstrates that you have done what
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Some of you have done that with
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who were dragged here by your parents
and teachers. But the point is you

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made it. You got here,
okay. So now with that in mind,

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you're launching into this new stage in
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you go to work or whatever else, and for the first time, you

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are completely in control of what happens. You were completely in charge of what

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comes next for you, and that
is a really big opportunity. When I

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was your age, it was a
really scary burden. I felt it like

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really heavy. I remember my graduation
day. I was terrified, what if

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I picked the wrong college. What
if I didn't like my professors that much?

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I really liked my high school teachers. What if I don't like my

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professors, what if my roommate is
weird and he was. What if I

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never find a job and I end
up just totally failing. You See,

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when you're in school, the nice
part about school, the part about school

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I really liked, was that every
like year, you know what's next.

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Right when you're done with kindergarten,
you go to first grade, assuming you

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passed. You when you're done with
eighth grade, you go to high school,

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assuming you passed. And now at
this moment, like what's next is

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pretty much up to you. You're
the captains of your own destiny. Now.

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I know for some of you,
your family probably gave you, like

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maybe very specific instructions of what's next, but in general, you are now

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considered adults by society, right even
though it's an arbitrary thing, and you're

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in charge of and responsible for what
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Obviously your family will still love you
and all that, but like it's on

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you now. So well, I
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that was like a burden that was
really heavy. I remember my graduation day

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like for like an hour that afternoon, like I just like was so overcome

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by that, Like I just cried
for like an hour when I on the

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day of my graduation. It's not
something I'm proud of. And it actually

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kind of is funny when you look
back on it, because, like,

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who would want to stay in high
school? But I was terrified because I

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had all these decisions in front of
me, and what if I make the

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wrong one? What's next? My
hope is that you view this moment not

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as a burden but as something of
an opportunity. You are never going to

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be this age again. For some
of you that's like, oh, thank

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goodness, but you'll never be this
age again. And well, we know

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from brain research tell us that right
now your brains are actually still developing.

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So right now you're creating the habits
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you are in five years, ten
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And that opportunity is something I want
to emphasize for you today. I

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don't super like garden metaphors, but
I'm going to use this one. Right

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now, your life is like a
brand new flower bed. Right, you

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get it all cleaned out, you
bring in new dirt, and it's super

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clean and it's awesome. Right,
there's no weeds, It's ready to go.

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That's what you are right now,
right like you have more or less.

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I mean, you still probably have
some bad habits, but you're still

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pretty young. You get to pick
what you plant, right, You can

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pick the plants that you bring in, what seeds that you're going to sell

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now, it's up to you.
So the habits that you're instilling in yourselves

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right now are going to stick easier
than they will when you're twenty five,

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thirty, or forty five. If
you don't believe me, ask your parents.

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It's way easier to start something now
than it is going to be later

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priors twenty six or twenty two six. Excuse me, is that if you

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start children off on the way they
should go when they're older, they will

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not turn from it. Now.
It's a weird verse for graduation because they're

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not really kids, but you kind
of still are in that training phase,

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the difference being now you're the ones
directing that right. You get to pick

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what's next. So I'm gonna talk
about some things that I hope you consider

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in this critical time of opportunity.
And I remember, I'm not an expert.

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These aren't commands. These are just
things that I wish someone would have

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said to me when I was an
eighteen year old who was freaked out about

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what came next. Every week has
one hundred and sixty eight hours. I

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did the math. Mister Jordan can
check me on it later if he wants.

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Everyone in this room has one hundred
and sixty eight hours of every week.

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The biggest lie, I don't know
if you know this, The biggest

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lie we tell ourselves and we tell
other people, is the lie of I

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didn't have enough time. It's just
almost never true. If Brady can get

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up at five in the morning to
go get football cards or basketball cards or

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whatever nonsense he was doing, then
we have time for stuff, right,

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like we can all limit that.
Well, we really mean when we say

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that is actually that thing you asked
me to do wasn't that important to me,

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so I didn't do it. But
of course we don't say that because

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that would be rude, and your
parents taught you not to be rude.

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But that's I mean in reality,
right when you go to your professor and

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say, hey, I didn't have
time, what you mean is actually did

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something else with my time. Time
is our most diable resource, right A

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lot of us thing maybe it's money
or cars or the stuff we have.

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Your time is your most diable resource. May not seem like it when you're

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eighteen, but I promise you that's
true, and learning to become the master

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of our limited time is a worthwhile
pursuit. If you spend some of your

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energy right now, at this age, trying to figure out how to become

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the master of your time, you
will reap benefits later in your life that

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are going to instantly set you apart
from like ninety percent of everybody else,

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right, because there's just a lot
of people who just float through life.

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So with that in mind, right, I came up with kind of three

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areas. Again, not a sermon, but there are three points. So

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take that what you will. And
I look, I don't expect you to

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think about this right now because you're
like half an hour from cake and graduation

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stuff, but hopefully right in the
coming days we'll maybe think about this.

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So the first one is take stock
of how you're spending your time. Your

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generation is probably maybe not exactly the
first is the first to grow up with

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an infinite supply of things to distract
you and stuck up your time. Probably

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right now, I'm going to guess
all thirteen. You have a computer in

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your pocket, a phone in your
pocket that would blow the minds of scientists

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from forty or fifty years ago,
like there would be. They have no

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idea what to do with it.
On that computer, you have thousands of

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hours of movies and TV shows and
games and memes and YouTube videos and whatever

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else you're doing that I don't know
about because I'm one hundred and fifty years

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old. But you have all of
that all the time. I'm not suggesting

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that you go into the ocean and
enjoy your phone and just get rid of

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it. I do think probably life
would be better if all of us did

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that, but I don't think the
world could work that way. But I

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am saying, periodically, take time. Take stock of your time and how

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you're using it on that device and
on the dozens of devices you have in

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your rooms at your house. Okay, those things are not bad things.

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They'll let me be very clear,
they're not bad things. But they can

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become bad if you allow them to
master your time. For you, I've

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seen it happen. I've probably told
you stories of people i've seen it happen

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with. So every now and then, right, put your phone down,

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take a weekend off, go read
a book you liked when you were a

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kid, go to the park,
or maybe next time you're with a friend,

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instead of like having your phone for
ice creamer coffee, just leave it

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in your car and just like see
what happens. Many of us, and

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I'm including myself in this, let
our time be controlled by the device instead

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of controlling the device to benefit her
time. So that's the first thing,

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right, big big picture stuff.
Secondly, the second most valuable resource I

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think that we have is our physical
bodies, these physical things. Right in

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a few minutes, you're gonna walk
across the stage, and you probably learn

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in science like all the different complicated
things that have to take place just for

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you to get up and walk across
the stage. That probably makes you realize,

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like, hey, this is a
pretty special thing that God gave us.

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You only get one of them until
I guess robots come and you can

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like transfer your consciousness or whatever.
But that's probably not happen anytime soon.

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So you get one one of these
physical bodies, you need to take care

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of it. You need to find
a way to exercise that you enjoy and

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make it a part of your habits. Make it part of your life.

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For me, that's playing basketball and
going for a run. My wife said,

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I'm not gonna go for run,
So I'm gonna go to kickboxing class

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twice a week. Whatever it is
for you, I don't really care,

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honestly, But whatever it is for
you, find something that's good for you,

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that's healthy. Make it a part
of your habit. Make it a

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part of your habits now at eighteen
seventeen, eighteen nineteen, so that when

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you're thirty forty fifty you don't have
to do it so with such difficulty.

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One of the things I regret about
my college years is that I had this

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really nice gym like that I was
actually paying for, and I'd hardly ever

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went because I had other stuff going
on right I didn't have time. I

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didn't take advantage of that opportunity enough. If you prioritize your health right now,

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you will be so far ahead of
the game when you're my age older.

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Again, ask your parents. And
by the way, this does include

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like what we eat too. At
some point, I promise you your metabolism

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is going to slow down. You're
not gonna be able to go to tacubell

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at eleven at night with no repercussions. Like you, there will be a

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day that hits and it will be
a sad day, but you will have

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to like, oh, I can't
do that anymore. I'm not saying that

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we all have to go full vegan
or anything, but having a balanced diet

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now probably not a bad idea,
so that when you're ten years from now,

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you're not coping down kale smoothies every
morning. Some people are laughing because

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they have to do that. Lastly, the final thing, the most important

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thing, is that this season of
your life, these next four or five

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six years, can become, if
you let it, one of the most

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spiritually rewarding times in your entire life. I meant freely. Okay, I'm

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gonna tell you telling myself here,
I didn't do a very good job of

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this. When I was your age, like you, I grew up in

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this WCS bubble, and I did
all of the things that you do in

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the VC's bubble. Right, we
have chapel, you have Bible class every

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day, and like, oh that's
great, I'm I'm a good kid or

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whatever. Then after that, I
went to college and I went to Christian

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College, and then we started having
chapel three times a week and I still

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have Bible classes. And I was
like, oh, I'm a you know,

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it's a different bubble. It's a
bigger bubble, it's still a bubble.

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If you make a habit now of
taking time with Jesus, read the

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Bible, pray, don't give you
a lot of time. But if you

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make that a habit every day part
of your life, now, that's going

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to stick with you ten, fifteen, twenty years from now. I really

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believe that God blesses that time.
Even if it feels like, man,

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I don't really understand what I'm reading, or God's not really listening to my

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prayers. I've not really I don't
feel like he's hearing me. I promise

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you that time is not wasted.
It's never wasted. And as an aside,

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since we did Worldview, it's a
lot harder for the nonsense of the

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world and the lies of culture to
get into your mind and in your heart.

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If your heart is rooted in the
Bible and in Jesus, just it's

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way more difficult. And by the
way, the same thing goes for church.

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One thing I actually did well of, or well at, I think

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in college as I went to church. Even though we had chapel three times

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a week, I still felt like
I should go to church, and I

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often went by myself, and I
didn't really like that very much. But

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I look back on those times now, those lonely Sunday mornings of sitting in

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the back of a church that I
barely knew anybody, as being really important

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for my spiritual growth in my relationship
with Jesus. I had to trust that

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he was still working, even though
I didn't really understand it, and I

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didn't really know why it was this
way. I've seen friends that have given

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up on that that has not been
a habit of theirs, and they have

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let that kind of fall by the
wayside, and you know, because they

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got out of the bubble and then
they just wasn't part of their life.

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It wasn't a habit, it wasn't
deeply rooted. So I'm just urging you

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next fall, wherever you end up
with our college, whatever, wherever you

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end up next fall, find a
church you like that preaches truth, right,

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and make sure it preaches truth.
But find a church you like and

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make sure you're there more often than
you're not. I really believe that God

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blesses that obedience, even if it
doesn't maybe feel like it in the moment

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and it's lonely because maybe you're by
yourself because your roommate's weird and he doesn't

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want to go with you. But
I really believe that God blesses that obedience,

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and I really lived back on those
that season of my life as being

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one of the most enriching in hindsight
because I was faithful, even though I

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didn't see the results of that until
later. So we're not at forty five

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minutes. Those are my kind of
my big three things to think about.

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Okay. To close out, I'm
going to quote a scripture passage that you

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may or may not know. Hung
in my classroom, my last classroom up

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here before I left, and I
didn't really make a big deal of it

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because I had to decorate because they
said you have to decorate, even though

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why I'm a man, I don't
want to decorate. But I decorated,

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and I had this verse above the
door because I this was my prayer for

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my students, right this verse.
Everyone who came in and out of my

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classroom. I wanted that for them. Okay, so it's still my hope

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for you. Even though you're not
my students anymore. I still I'm going

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to say this over you, and
I hope you know this is still what

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I desire for you in the future. Okay, So this is from numbers,

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chapter six, verse twenty fourth to
twenty six. The Lord bless you

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and keep you. The Lord make
his face shine on you, and be

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gracious to you. The Lord turn
his face towards you and give you peace

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and joyless opportunity, but also make
the most of it. Thank you for

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having me speak. Thank you very
much. St. Nettleton, great words.

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Um. So, now is the
time of the awarding of diplomas.

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Also during this time when we award
diplomas, we also give a gift to

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seniors from US Wesleyan Christian School.
And we believe that the greatest thing that

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we can hand off to them is
the Word of God. And so we

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h and we know that different students
may have uh some Bibles at home,

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but they're in the outsides of the
Bible. We do have some teachers who

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have signed put some scripture verses for
you guys to consider and think about.

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And just know that these are people
that are going to be praying over you,

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not just now, but continually.
You are not just part of our

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lives now, but will always be
a part of WCS and the lives of

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those of us who work here.
So now it is time for us to

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present the seniors their diplomas. Seniors, if you'll take your place, Mister

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Josh Pruvy, our board president,
will be handing the diplomas and I will

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hand the bibles. Nevada Ashlock H. That's the best. Rachel, Elizabeth

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Hopkins, Matthew Marquez m m H. Drew White Jackson, Zamorah Craig Bourton,

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m Nicholas Burke, Chase Cottner m
m H. David Get Jolla pretty

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I got, Jordan Haskett, Joseph
Jones m m H. Austin Rigden,

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Brady Rucker. These socks are awesome. If you don't know the story,

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I'd love for you to tell your
seniors. Seniors feel take your places.

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M H m hm. Seniors,
it's now time to turn your tassel.

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Ladies and gentlemen. I present to
you the Wesleyan Christian School graduating class of

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two thousand and twenty three. MM
after our Pastor Joe prays for us,

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and we appreciate so much, first
Wesleyan Church, who does so much to

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support the ministry of Wesleyan Christian School, and who had a passion to start

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a Christian school many years ago.
And so we're so thankful for that.

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And so we are asking Pastor Joe
Fiel come and pray for us. As

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soon as he finish his prayer,
our students are going to march out,

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and then we ask you to stay
here with us and spend a little time

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looking at the students boards and enjoying
some refreshments. Thank you so much for

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coming. Let's pray together. Almighty
God, we praise you. And very

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often we come to a graduation and
we think of the end, the end

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of high school and the beginning,
and the scripture is filled with the words

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in the beginning. This is a
time of beginning. Make this be an

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extraordinary time of beginning, a new
step, a new part of life,

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and looking to the future for the
ways we can advance the Kingdom of God

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and bring you honor and glory.
I pray for your spirit to be on

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each one of these graduates, protect
them mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally,

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financially, vocationally, relationally, and
guide them in every step of their

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walk to God be the glory Amen. Even listening to our broadcast of the

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Wesleyan Christian School graduation right here on
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four twenty five seventy five. Congratulations
to the Wesleyan Christian School graduating class of

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twenty twenty three. We have had
an amazing year. Continue to trust in

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God and do what is right and
you will have success in life. From

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the Wesleyan Christian School faculty and staff. Congratulations to Nieva Ashlock, Craig Borton,

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Nick Burke, Chase Cottner, David
gujar Lapoo, Jordan Heskett, Rachel

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Hopkins, Joseph Jones, Matthew Marquez, Austin Rigden, Brady Rugger, Drew

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Wright, and Jackson Zamora. Come
back to Wesley and Christian School where we

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guest saw the graduating class of twenty
twenty three tossed their caps and take it

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into the world. Our broadcast tonight
has been brooke to you by Wesley and

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Christian School also Westley and Kidney College, Westley, and there we've got to

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to thank you very much for being
a part of our audience today and we

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now return you to our regular program
right here on K Wonder When you trust

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Scared areas of rain. A couple
of rumbles of thunder are possible as we

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head through tonight and finally ending as
we get on into the morning hours.

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Even though we'd love to have more
rain across the area. Temperatures are expected

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to be around fifty four for late
tonight tomorrow morning. Looking for a good Rea