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

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It is time now for community connection
right here on K one, the

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one you trust. It is eight
thirty five. We got a beautiful day

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today and now we also have a
beautiful topic to talk about too, and

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it's packed the backpacks. I know
the kids just got out of school,

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but it's about the halfway point.
They're getting ready to go back. And

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we have Carolyn Debbie here with us. First of all, ladies, welcome,

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thank you. A little bit about
pack the backpacks. This has been

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going on for a little bit,
hasn't it, Yes, for about almost

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twenty years. Wow we wow we
how long you been with it? Since

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the beginning. I'm the one that
kind of helped start it. So well,

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very good. We've got a founder
here. We also have the president

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of Debbie. How you doing.
I'm good now. This is great.

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We've got a lot going on here, and I also know that even though

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it's been going on for a long
time, we need new people to kind

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of pitch in a little bit.
Tell us a little bit about going on.

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Well, we've got our we're taking
applications now for the backpacks, and

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they are our last day will be
July fifteenth, which is next Monday.

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Okay, So we're doing it at
in person at Marymartha at eighteen forty five

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West Fourth and AGAFE Mission at five
five to five South Cast. These are

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for recipients, right. These are
for the recipients and they are five family.

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And then we also are doing online
applications through the fifteenth and that is

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from our website packdbackpacks dot org.
And we have both available an English and

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a Spanish application. So there's a
button that says click here if you want

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to do English, and click here
if you want to do Spanish. Very

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good. Now, I understand that
over the years the need has kind of

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grown. It's not gone away,
it's not diminished. Yes, we started

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out I think less than five hundred
and then we've grown because we went to

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the county wide so that and then
more people, and the need has grown

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too, and the cost of supplies
has grown so much. And like she

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said, to pack the backpacks with
an ass packedthe backpacks. Dot org has

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all the information that about applying about
other things, and I know we have

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a lot of information to give out
today. You know, That's that's one

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thing I remember as a kid We
weren't exactly the country club set, not

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by a long shot. But my
parents always made sure that when we hit

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school we had everything we needed,
no matter what. And it took a

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lot off, no matter what sometimes
in order to get that going, because

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they didn't want us to fall behind. And there are some situations, and

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I'm very well aware of them,
where there's there ain't no no matter what,

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they just ain't nothing. And that's
kind of where we come in,

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isn't it right right? The costs
increased last year thirty six percent. Yeah,

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and you think, well, you
know, a box of crayons only

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went up to seventy five cents from
fifty cents, But if you're buying three

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thousand, that makes a big difference
in your budget. It does. And

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so we found that the price of
the backpack has gone up dramatically to the

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point where we are now serving thirty
percent of the students in Washington County.

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Oh my goodness. Things. And
that's what this year. We'd really like

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that. We really want to help
those that are truly needy. And so

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how do we do that? We
just basically we take your word for it.

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So we really ask those that are
just doing us for convenience not to

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do that, so we can help
the ones that are truly needy, that

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really need help that if they had
to buy backpacks, the child wouldn't get

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new shoes or something like that.
So right now I'm seeing the picture vividly,

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the child going into school going,
gosh, I hope, I hope,

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I'm equipped. How do we make
sure that we get everything to you

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guys that we need in order for
these kids to be successful when they walk

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in the door. How can we
help it with citizens? You can donate

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school supplies. We have a bin
at at our storage location, which is

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the RSUE building at Fourth and Dewey. Can't miss it, Nope. And

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the bin is in lobby, so
anytime the building's open you can. And

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we're always in need of notebook paper, colored pencils, crayons, h markers.

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The list just goes. We have
about one hundred and twenty five products

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in our inventory that the teachers have
actually requested. We don't just really neilly

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decide what goes in the backpack.
Oh, you you go to the experts,

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don't you. Yes, Yes,
we get the school lists from each

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school in the county. Wow,
and we put that in a database,

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match it up to the child by
school, grade and gender. Wow,

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and for you know that how good
those computers are? It sticks out a

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list for every every child. My
goodness sakes. Now, do you guys

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take a good old fashioned cash?
Oh? You bet? Yeah. I

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say you had a couple hundred dollars
burning in your pocket and you say,

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you know what's I'm going to do
something stupid with this? I might as

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well doing something good nastly. We
have two ways that you can do that.

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You can you can send a check
to us at our post office box

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that's twenty thirty one Tuesday Ero three
to one in Bartlesville seven four zero zeal

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five. Or go to our website
that has the address to on it.

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But we do have you can click
on donate and you can donate with a

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credit card on our website. I
understand. We've got a fun event where

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we can raise a lot of money
at HURT And you can also maybe wait

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a little bit on the side to
that was about the bingo coming up.

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Okay, it's going to be on
July the twentieth, Saturday night. Saturday

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Night Bingo. Where are the decks
We're going? It's going to be at

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Saint Luke's Episcopal Church, uh huh
at eighth and Dewey here in Bartlesville.

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It'll be the doors will open it
and the games will start at six and

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you can pre order, you know, your tickets. I have some hit

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with me right now. I take
matter of fact, good thing. Miss

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Susie ain't right here. She'd probably
take all of them. But that's okay.

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We'll get s. And so the
cost is twelve dollars for a card.

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That's it. Yeah, that's it. And you can play more than

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one card, which a lot of
people do. And so we're going to

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have a lot of different games,
and we're also going to have a dessert

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auction. Sweet. One of our
board members is going to make a couple

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of cheesecakes and they are like big
old cheesecakes. What was the one?

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She said, blueberry and lemon.
I think okay, well yeah, And

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another board member is going to make
a pecan pie. How can you say

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no? How can you say no? I'm sitting here right now going like,

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well, I'll buy a pie,
but you know, I'll let mama

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play bingo. I'll be okay with
this. This is it. This is

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a good two for that you got
going on here, and we will be

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serving food also at the event.
Great hot dogs, popcorn, you know,

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summer type activity. Good gun and
drinks. Well you know, you

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get a little dry yelling, go
yeah, yes, yes, this is

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gonna be great. And it's gonna
be at Saint Luke's again. That's gonna

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be on the twentieth. Huh,
yes, that's coming right up. Now,

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do you need packers, If you
need volunteers, out to the volunt

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many many, many many. Okay, that means we've got to send out

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the old signal here, don't Yes, So we are using sign up genius

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as a convenient way, and so
there's a link on our website and it

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says just sign up to help pack
and distribute the backpex, please click here.

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I thought you got to do.
Go to the website and do the

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please click here. Right. And
so we will start that activity, the

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actual packing on Thursday, August first
wow and the evening. We like to

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be able to involve people that work
for a living too, right, So

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we're going to do that from six
to eighty and that'll be our first time

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of actually packing. And then we've
got Friday, we have two shifts on

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Friday nine to noon and then one
thirty to five, and then Saturday morning

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we'll do it nine to noon.
And that's going to complete all of the

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backpacks. Wow, that's a lot
of work in a short time. So

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it's assembly line. It's really a
thing to see now, Carol standing over

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the years, that assembly line has
just gotten refined to the point where you

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know, Henry Ford would scratch his
head and say, well, how about

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that. That's right, and we
have everything organized. We have a person

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I'd like to give her a shout
out, Kathy Scheltz, that really organizes

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all the products and so that you
just take the backpack and go down the

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line and people put in the correct
product in the backpack and then take the

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backpack to where we have them lined
up. And if we have pictures on

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the website, you can see the
twenty seven hundred backpacks lined up at Saint

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Luke's Mine. I couldn't as sake. That's got to be sa. Somebody's

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got to video tape that put it
like in fast motion, you know,

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and say this is this is our
busy V's here. You know, that's

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a good idea. One of the
best things about this opportunity of packing is

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that it is a family friendly event. Of course. You know something that

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the kids love to do. They
put the backpack on backwards and just walk

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down the line and people put things
in them and they look. Whole family

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can come, right we that's and
enjoy it. If the child is under

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twelve and under, the parent must
accompany the child, right uh there.

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But we have lots of them,
I mean little ones five year old and

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they walk and they get the stuff
in the backpacks. Yeah, oh my

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gosh, you know right there.
You gotta have video the little one just

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go. That would just be adorable
for your your your website and for your

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your Facebook pages. Yes, we
do get on that little TikTok thing and

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we do have a Facebook page also
great, and we have this flyer for

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our bingo is on there. Wonderful
and every time we need something that gets

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on there. I think the website, i mean the Facebook page is the

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Washington County School Supply Drive right,
yeah, Washington County School Supply Drift name.

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Yes, the official names our official
name. Yes, we are we

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are five on one C three and
good standing right, yes, we have

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a certificate of good standing from the
state of Oklahoma. That's always good to

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have, ladies. I want to
thank you very much. Is there something

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we may have forgotten? I hope
they came so prepared that we are actually

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distributing the backpacks our Sunday, August
the fourth, from two to seven and

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Monday, August the fifth from eight
thirty am to seven pm. So we

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have lot several shifts for that and
we're expected to be there pretty much all

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the time. Indeed, get there
any questions right? Kind of kind of

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close because I think school starts with
the eighteenth or something like that. Well

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most a lot of schools start the
fifteenth, but I think some start that

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week like the eighth. Oh so
yes, yeah, yeah, I think

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a couple of them do. Maybe
the more important thing is to go to

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our website because it has all the
information packthe backpacks with thats dot org.

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All right, thank you very much. This has been great. I hope

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you had fun because I know you
guys got to get rested up here because

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you got a lot going on between
the bingo and the bagging and everything else

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and the shopping in between. Yes, good gravy. All right, thank

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you for being with us here on
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