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Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout Podcasts for
the week of July tenth, twenty twenty

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three. I'm Terry Morrow and I'm
here with Nicole Heretics Hello and Katherine hell

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

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and obsessing about right now. But
this week things are changing. Nicole is

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leaving us such a time of transition, kids going off to college and new

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animals coming into houses and I'm back
podcasters leaving just such a sentimental time of

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year. And so this week we've
asked Nicole to share some of her favorite

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episodes from our years years podcasting together. Nicole, which back today, Well,

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this podcast was I'm not even sure
when it was originally aired. I

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mean it was like years ago.
Because the title of the pod cast is

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celebrating two hundred episodes, and we
have far surpassed hundred episode and going back

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and listening to it is so fun
just to hear what our thoughts were after

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too, you know, after recording
two hundred episodes together and so and I

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think now we're over two thousand.
So yeah, it's just kind of fun

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to go back and hear about those
those small changes that well we thought they

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were very big, but in retrospect, we had no idea what we were

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in for. So enjoy listening.
This is episode two hundred of our podcast,

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and you can tell it by the
smooth and professional way we go about

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this. We have this down to
a science, y'all. So, well,

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we thought we'd talk a little bit
about our time podcasting and and uh,

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Catherine, how are we going to
do this? Well, we thought

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we would talk a little bit about
what's changed over these past couple of years

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and these two hundred we say two
hundred episodes, but really it's it's many

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more than that when you fold in
all the round twos, and we used

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to do round three and round four, and we have speed round speed rounds.

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So but two hundred of these you
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chats. Yes, yes, so
two hundred numbered episodes, I guess you

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could say. And we thought we'd
just kind of look look at how things

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have changed and evolved over. Yeah. One thing that springs directly to mind

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that has changed is that the origin
of the parenting round About name was that

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at the beginning, everybody who was
on the podcast worked for about dot com.

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And now I don't know if any
of those people that started out still

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working about dot com, but Catherine
and I certainly don't. Nicole never did.

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But the the about part has left, but we've kept the round about.

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That's right, just because I paid
for a domain name. So but

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that actually, not only have we
left about, but about has left about.

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It's not even called about any so
we we we retain the about and

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now it's loving memory, maybe not
loving, but anyway in our about.

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Yeah, I mean, the ending
was not good for anybody, but it

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was a pretty great gig for a
long time. So you know, I

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have I try to retain the fond
memories and not go on to see what

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has happened to my former real estate. It's basically dumping or dumping ground for

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odds and ends of things I wrote
that have no particular reason to be on

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a on a landing page. So
every now and then I dig out something

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that they no longer have up and
put it on my own stuff. But

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that was a big part of my
life, and yeah, professional life,

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and a big part of yours too, Catherine, I'm sure. Yeah,

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for a lot of years. And
yeah, we met a lot of people,

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and that's a lot of them were
on this podcast at yes, varying

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times, um, and you know, some like Amanda, obviously we're here

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for for a long time, right, and so you and I would never

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have met. Catherine had very before
about and especially them bringing people into New

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York every so often to eat catered
food and listen to them presentations. Listen

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to them. Food was always better
than the presentations, although there was that

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one year in a warehouse somewhere where
the food was a little icy, but

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anyway, someone else. So for
me, I know things have in terms

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of my kids, obviously we've grown, but I mean when we started,

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I think, Terry, your son
was still in school in college, and

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you were spending your days at the
community college. I podcasted for my car

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more than once, right, and
my kids have finished elementary school and they're

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in middle and high school now,
so that feels very different. It feels

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like a very different phase of parenting, I think, right. And I

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think Nicole had the empty nest,
the not the empty nest yet, but

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the departure of your son for college, yeah, right around maybe right around

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the time you started podcast. Yeah, I would have been because he lived

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with us the first year of his
university and then he the second year,

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he moved into the frat house.
I think I probably talked about that several

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times. And yeah, so he
left and then he moved in with his

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girlfriend. Um, and my daughter
started. Did she start high school or

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was shardy in high school? I
can't remember. I think she might yet.

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Yeah, I don't think she was
starting starting. Um. Oh,

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and I wrote a book. Oh
that I wrote and sort of finished a

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book. I wouldn't say it's complete
just yet. It is now being able

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to death by aranhas. But yeah, some more standard remnant of it.

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We'll see the lights eventually. Folks, let us make this public service announcement.

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If you have romantic notions about book
authorship and publication, let us let

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you down not so gently. We
will not inspire you. Just publish yourself

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online. You know what to get
yourself a blog, write whatever you want,

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tell people it's there. Be poor, but you'll be happy. You

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won't get the tens of dollars you
would get from writing a book, but

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still with an Amazon link maybe.
Oh. Yes, it's been quite the

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learning curve. So I am not
the person I used to be. You're

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a shell of your form. Result. Go back and listen to the early

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podcast with Nicole, and she's so
different, she's so idealistic. We'll get

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some of our go back to some
of our inclusive of class podcasts Master in

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the Universe. You know, Oh, it's so idealistic and now I'm just

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jaded. And I kept saying I
was the jaded one, and turns out

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I was right. Yes, descended
to my level. Yes, but let's

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not talk about who encouraged me to
write the book. We're not going to

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go there. But that was fun. You can do it. I should

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write a book. I think a
man to share some of the blame for

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that. Yeah, let's it's not
here. Yeah, nicely to deflect.

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That's something that's changed over two hundred
episodes, is right? We lost people.

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Yeah, I'm still out there and
we're no longer talking to the podcast.

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And Terry learned how to edit a
podcast, did Yes. We had

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the luxury of having Amanda's husband John
edit us for quite some time, and

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then it was left to me to
do And I figured that was going to

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be the end of anything audible but
self taught. If you if you like

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the way this podcast sounds, pat
me on the back for having learned how

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to do that all by myself.
And if you think it sounds awful,

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what do you want from me?
I don't know what I'm doing, want

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to see the way? Yeah,
you can always volunteer to do it for

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us if you'd like, right,
if anybody out there is just looking for

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practice, Yeah, this is a
service that we've been willing to work free

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and really quickly, right, especially
when we're doing Dancing with the Stars and

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then publishing a podcast the next day. Right, So no rush, but

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get it done. We might have
to switch to like Facebook Live for these

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could happen. That's an interesting idea, Larry. Yeah, no editing require

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We are all about the hip and
happening technology, y'all. Yeah, for

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sure it. Well, do you
feel like you've learned anything about yourself,

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or your abilities, or your your
parenting during the podcasts? I've learned the

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capacity. Even though I think I
have no time for doing anything but work,

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I still have time to edit podcasts, record podcasts, make quote graphics

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for podcasts, tweet twenty four hours
a day. But other than that,

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my family, my family ever adds
up how much do I spend on the

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podcast? I'm gonna have to answer
for that. It's a good thing you

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do at all while they're sleeping,
that's true. Yes, I have mastered

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the fall asleep on the couch and
then wake up at four am, grab

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your computer and work. So that
is when lots of that stuff gets done.

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But it is fun and it makes
me feel young to be doing something

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new and unusual and not my same
old, same old. So yeah,

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it's been a good time. And
I really you know, every having somebody

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to talk to every week and laugh
with is a valuable thing exactly. How

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about your Catherine, what have you
learned? Well? I mean I think

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I probably knew this about myself before
before this, from my days of about

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dot com and even working for magazines. But you know, when you think

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there is just nothing more to say, or no more ideas, nothing nothing

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new under the sun, you can
always come up with something. You can

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always pull something out of your Yes, you just keep trying and something is

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there. So I think that's going
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that every everything he's been said,
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something else, something out and you
will listen. That's right, Because this

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is a free service we offer.
You can listen to us while you are

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doing other things, we don't mind. You won't have to worry about missing

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some clever term of phrase. It'll
just be us yammering. Well, the

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clever terms of phrase we pull out, and that's right and make into graphics

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for you. Full service. You
can leave you if you're thinking, what's

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that one smart thing they said,
you can go on Facebook and look at

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all our photos. You'll find it
there find Yes. Yes, I think

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we do pretty good and I certainly
have started listening to so many more podcasts.

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Yeah, podcasts are fun, you
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in the time that we have been
doing this, it's exploded, you know,

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and it's Yeah, it's nice to
feel like we're part of We're part

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of that, even though we'd like
to be part of it in this sense

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of having more listeners and more you
know, advertisers. But you know,

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we start we start with just enjoying
it for more grassroots first two hundred or

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three hundred for free. After that, after that I need to come up,

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how about you, Nicole? And
doing this contrasted to doing a previous

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podcast that was more yeah, that
was actually people who knew what they were

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talking about. Well, I feel
like I can be more myself on this

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yes podcast, Um yeah, I
mean the other one was very serious,

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So there was ever any sort of
room for joking or other than meat was

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saying that never happens. Yeah yeah, um yeah, it was quite.

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It was definitely more of a different
vibe to it. And we didn't have

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to do as much talking, did
we, Terry. So I've had I've

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learned, I've learned how to talk
on the spot. We didn't edit that

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at all. We just recorded it
on and oh we did it out on

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blog talk. It was like live
streaming. It was yeah yeah, well,

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and when we first started this podcast
was on its very first iteration was

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blog Talk and was unedited and it
was like me walking around in my backyard

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with me. That's when it was
a bunch of h a bunch of abad

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dot com guides. I'm just gonna, you know, one of our dads

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at a barn and we were gonna
put on a show. Yeah. Yeah,

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it's always a lot has changed and
I learned a lot. Yeah,

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it's been been a good ride.
That's it for today's farewell memory from Nicole.

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Tune in tomorrow for another walkdown memory
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