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Join Queen Cheniera on her 1st anthology_ Come take this journey with her · DA CREW Podcast

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Okay, well, hey, hey, hey y'all, Hey y'all, Hey,
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y'all. And it's not the Crew podcast. It's just me the Visionary.
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It's just me, the Queen of collaborations, y'all. I just wanted
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to jump on. I have some vig very very exciting news and I'm just
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gonna be sharing. I want try to share this with someone in your circle
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of influence, if you would, please, y'all share this out. I
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have my I call her my prayer Vestie. Her and Pamela Jay Hayes.
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I call them my prayer Vesti because they have been standing in the gap and
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standing on the wall with me for the last four years, in one hundred
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and twenty one days of prayer, and I truly appreciate them for what they
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do. And I have been pushing and pushing and pushing Shaniia because me and
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Pama authors and y'all know, I'm gonna push everybody that come around me.
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I don't know why, It's just something. I just feel like everybody have
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a story, everybody have something that needs to be shared. No matter where
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you are, everybody have something that can help somebody else. And the word
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tells us that we overcome by the sharing and hearing of our testimony. So
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if we are not sharing them, then how can people hear them? And
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we can't sit down on what God has done for us because that's what a
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lot of us do. These gifts and talents. A lot of us we
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just let these gifts and talents go to waste, like something gonna fall out
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the sky, like somebody gonna do something for us when there's things that we
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need done but we won't do it. It's just like they say faith and
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then you just sit there and just think faith is gonna do it by itself,
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but it say faith with our works is dead. So hello, So
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Shaneia, if you would please introduce yourself to those that are tuned in,
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and then we're gonna jump into this book thing because we're gonna talk about that
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book project that you got going on coming up. Yes, yes, yes,
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Hey everyone. I'm Shanira Osborne. I'm the learn of the L three
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movement with Angela and Pamela. We we've been doing the prayer now I'm going
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on four years. I believe Angela being really really getting on me about doing
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my own author book and I have I've really been putting it on the back
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burner. But now I realized that it's time for me to publish my own
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book this year, were starting twenty twenty five. So I just want to
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thank everyone for even joining, getting on and you know, listening to us
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talk about his special book because I call it special because this is something that
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she would have been done or try to do. But you know, God
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using Angela to do some great things. So Angie, I just want to
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thank you. Yes, yes, yes, And I always like when I
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first started, I started with an anthology. A young lady from Texas reached
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out to me and asked me to share my first thoughts. I don't know
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what that's about. No book, I don't she said, just right,
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So that's what I did. She I said, well what am I writing?
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First? I said what am I writing? And she say, the
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title of the book is from Fit of Freedom? She say, so write
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something that you went from fear to freedom. And I shared my journey of
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losing my mom twelve days after my sixteenth birthday. That was the first time
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I've ever wrote anything. She didn't respond back, so I thought, hey,
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maybe she didn't like it. So a couple of weeks went by didn't
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hear from them, and then I was like, well, maybe I reach
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out to him. So I gave it another week. So three weeks went
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by, I reached out to him and she was like, oh, it's
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at the editor. She say, that was amazing, she was. I
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was like, oh, okay, I said, because I thought you had
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threw it in the trash and said forget it because I didn't hear back from
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you. So I tell people to just write, get it out, share
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whatever is later on your heart because no one knows what your struggle is.
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No one knows what you go through. No one knows what your trials or
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your tribulations. But know that where you are is where you're supposed to be.
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And when you're given the opportunity to share, no matter where you are,
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you should share because somebody may be in a situation that your story can
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help them come out. Just that that that nugget that you drop maybe something
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that can help them come out. So when every chance I get, I
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I love doing it. I don't know. We have some technical difficulties and
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like we may be buffering a little bit, but we keep bone, I
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said the enemy. I always be busy when we start doing something, but
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anyway giving individuals an opportunity to share something that they are passionate about. Just
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like this last poetry book, thirty individuals and there were seven sections. You
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didn't have to write in all seven sections. You only had to write in
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the sections that resonated to you. Because a lot of people didn't write in
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a dream section. A lot of people didn't write in the nature session.
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But a lot of people wrote about future, a lot of people wrote about
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love, a lot of people wrote about past. You know, but it's
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all about your perspective, your thoughts, your experience, because that experience that
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you went through and you share in your perspective, somebody else could have went
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with you're experience and that they could have perceived different to have options, They
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have different options, you know, check out. So that that's that's why
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I love doing anthologies. I'm excited to be able to help you with this
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anthology. So tell me. I want to be asking you some questions because
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I want to get a feel of what this anthology is going to be about,
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and how people can connect and how they can get involved and you know,
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what they can expect from being a part of this project because oftentimes people
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join anthologies and then they don't. They don't know what to expect, and
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then everybody do anathology is different. So we want individuals to know how you're
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going to be doing your anathology and get a feel of who you are in
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and how they can connect. So it's going to be a how many people
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are you looking for to be a part of the anathology? You know,
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you're just looking for queens or community too. I'm doing both. It can
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be kings of queens who we just want to be a part of it,
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who want to tell something that they've been experienced or you know. And I'm
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thinking we should do another third close to thirty people in the book, you
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know, I think, I think, I think it should be whatever they
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are, whatever they experience with God, whatever they experience in life, because
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we all do very something good bad, you know, so I think,
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and and it's a journey. And then at different points in our life we
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go through different things and different things is revealed to us. Because that's a
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scripture when the body that talks about us being born blind but blown boring blind
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in the spirit, but we could see naturally, you know, boring to
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see naturally, you know, and a lot of people, you know,
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they don't wake up. They don't their eyes are not open. That the
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veil does not remove from their eyes. They their ears is not open.
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They don't, they don't get it, you know. At the same time,
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you know, I watched and an example, Pastor Octaviia and there Pastor
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Octavia got Tay and all of that way before Passadre. Wow, passa dere
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could tell you he was still calling onto the strip club. That's so there
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could tell you. Yeah, I mean, that's their testimony. That's a
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part of their journey, you know. And everybody, everybody. Things happened
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to everybody at different times. Like Tay walked into her revelation. She walked
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into her revelation before I walked into my revelation. Wow, you know,
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years before I walked into my revelation. I remember when this girl started transitioning
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into her ministry. I remember, like I remember like it was yesterday.
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And when I tell you, that is what I'm trying. That what what
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what they implify is being who you are and showing the love of God regardless
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of your tattoos, your your past, but your past do not define you,
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and that makes you who you are today and that allows you to be
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who you man. I'm telling you, we want diversity. We want anyone
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that has a story. No matter how small you think your story may be
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or how deep it may be, somebody may need to hear it. So
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don't sit on it if you're out there. And what we had talked about,
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Shaneio wants to make this more than just a book. She wants to
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make this an experience. She she wants to actually, you know, spend
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spend time with all of the co opthors y'all. Y'all have weekly meetings,
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you know, and then we're gonna do a big book launch, you know,
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and then things. You know. We can do virtual book tour,
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we can do interviews, all kind of stuff. We can do it as
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a group, and we can do it individually. But most importantly, she
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wants to build a family, a village, a tribe that can support each
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other. You know, because y'all, at the end of the day,
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when when we join these projects like that and we connect with these individuals,
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it's not by accident, trust me, it's not by acts. So take
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advantage of these opportunities. And then when I tell you you can do this,
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for you ain't got to pay five hundred. You ain't even got to
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pay in a nine seniya, Please tell them what is the starting price?
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Because we have we have a lot of add ons that we want to incorporate
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that is just really going to take it to the next level. Because when
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I tell you this lady, it's creative and she is a visionary. And
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when I tell you she moves in lynch because she's a busical woman, you
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know, so she has a big vision. And what some of the things
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that we want to do with this book, in this project, it's going
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to require some extra some extra fees, but it's gonna be optional. You
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can participate if you like, or you don't have to, but there's gonna
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be a better won't feed for those that just want to be a part of
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the book. And then if you want to be part of the Billboard,
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because yeah, we do on Billboard, and if you want to be a
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part of the magazines and podcasts and different other stuff we and and not to
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mention the actual book runch in January, the live book Runch in January hit
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Atlanta, Georgia. So y'all go ahead, Markey Callander's Atlanta Georgia, So
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I'm excited. Tell them what's the starting price? The starting price. The
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starting price will be seventy seventy dollars, like she said, it will come
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with much more than seventy dollars. And I would say people may seem like,
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oh, well, why are we going to hey? But more and
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more that you really look into with the books and and everything Angela been doing.
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And I trust me, I've been somewhere where each one of the co
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authors had to pay three thousand dollars to be inside of inside someone's book.
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So if you're looking at seventy dollars, that's that's really nothing to be a
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co author. And even if you're not an author, you're gonna be a
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co author. So I think seventy dollars is a good price. Like Angela
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say, you will also get Billboard different things, and then also would come
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up with you will get from me it will be two free books for each
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one of a person who sign up for all right, so for seventy dollars
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you get to be a part of you getting to join the group. And
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then there would be weekly meetings and during these weekly meetings we will talk about
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things to help you on your your your writing journey, to help you get
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your chapter done, and any answer any questions that you may have. I
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will be right there with Shneiya all the way, walking her along the way.
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This is her first anthology, and I'm gonna be right there with her
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because she's my sister, and I want to make sure that this experience is
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a great experience for her and that she is providing you, guys as an
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experience because that's what she desired to do. You know, she wants to
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be able to leave a imprint on this world and to be able to spread
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God's business. And that's how are we doing it through this this, this
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this book, sharing our testimony because y'all, I understand tests when I got
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this, y'all, and I'm gonna break this down real quick. Testimony.
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Test it for a moment. That's it. You're being tested just for a
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moment so you'll have that testimony that can help somebody get through the moment.
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Y'all. Remember that now, you're being tested it for the moment so that
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you can help somebody m hmm with your testimony. Amen, So get through
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it. I tell people it's okay to feel how you feel. But don't
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stay there. Somebody need to hear that experience that makes you feel how you
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feel. Help. Because you feeling how you felt, it's gonna help somebody
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else get through it. So it's okay to have these feelings. I tell
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people, experience these feelings, experience these emotions. But whatever you are,
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don't stay there long. When you feel like you're staying there too long and
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you need help, you need to pick up the phone. Cause about it.
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But she shared in these books so that somebody else can hear, y'all,
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When I go on my inbox and I can get a message from somebody
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that has wrote in a book and and and said that they appreciate were giving
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them the opportunity to share, because they wouldn't have had this opportunity when I
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accidentally, y'all, I made a mistake. One day. I make mistakes,
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and I put a picture of a young lady on someone else's and the
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young lady was deceased. The Lord behold the young lady. The poem that
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I had wrote for the young lady was just sitting up the young lady that
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was deceased. The sister cried when she read the poem and asked me to
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publish it. So I published it in our last book, dedicated it to
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her. I dedicated the poem to her and put her picture in there and
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everything. So they just did a dedication up in Philadelphia. Her sister was
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a dancer. He danced. She taught dancing at the school and she got
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she got a lot of kids involved in dancing. So they dedicated the dance
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studio to her, and they all went. And the girl that I'm talking
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about, she stood up and spoke and she topped about that's why I do
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what I m Forty people shared in that book, twenty people, twenty people
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in I got twenty people in this book, twenty people in that book.
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I just believe it allowing people to share their voices because we've been moffled for
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so long. So y'all seventy dollars you would be a part of the group.
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And I think we're gonna have to change the name of the group because
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we invite me and and we want the men to feel comfortable because it's card
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warn war and women of faith and we enlighten our We are inviting me to
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be a part of it because we don't want to leave our men out.
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Because society have left them out for so long. And y'all know, I
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am my brother's keeper and I'm always pulling on my men to try to get
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them involved and stuff, So we definitely want them involved. So if y'all
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are listening, and y'all know some men that have testimonies or have powerful messages
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that need to be shared, and I'm calling on all eight of those men
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that were the part of Keys You or not forgotten. I need y'all inside
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of this book. Two y'all get connected with Shaniraa and join this honybakatoon.
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Jonathan Harris, who else? Keyon Rubin. I need all of y'all involved
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in this book. And we may even have some people that's incarcerated that may
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want to share as well, because they like to share. I've published a
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couple of people, so I'm definitely gonna see if anybody want to share and
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be a part of it. I think it's a great opportunity. It's a
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great opportunity. Amazing fire. There's an amazing fire with a picture of Shaniya
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on it. We gonna be for the book cover. We may we may
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do a have a book cover design. Yet we we we are going to
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see how we are laid we we we led. This is gonna be a
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truly lead experience. So I definitely want try to be a part of it.
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So y'all get connected. Channette, thank you, thank you for sharing.
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Channette is one of the hosts over on our network. She too,
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it's also going to be She's gonna be lunching a couple of projects. In
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January two, she said I pushed her so much. Now she want to
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do her own projects. She said, I'm not a poet, but I
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asked a writer a poem. I think it was three books to go.
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Now we on our third book, okay, And I'm talking about her pom.
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Her poem's getting better and better every time. They getting better and better
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every time. And she said, she's not a poet. I'm telling you
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you'd be surprised at the words God will give you if you just allow him
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to use you. And I'm going to I won't be helping her because Shenett
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is a very strong woman, like yourself. She lost her son in November
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eight months ago on the tenth, So we we've been rating around her and
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trying to help her get through this. You know, it's it's one day
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at a time, you know. And I keep telling her, it's one
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day at a time. You you you have to do what you can do,
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and that's all you can do. It's one day at a time.
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So she's gonna she she wants to start talking about grief. So I want
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to help her with the brief project. And she works with being that are
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incarcerated out of Colorado. So she has a few men that she's gonna be
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helping publish some projects. We have one one of the guys that she works
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with, he's actually in this this book that were getting ready to drop footprints
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and saying the times he he wrote one form in this book. So yeah,
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I'm excited. I'm excited for you guys. So I want people to
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get involved. I want y'all to share it and to let people know what
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you're doing. Let your families know what you're doing, and get them to
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support it, even if if they don't want to be part of it.
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Tell them to sew into you so that you can have a great launch party
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or whatever. But I'm excited. Is it anything that you would like to
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tell the listeners Those that may be tuning in late are those that will hear
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the replay anything about the project that you want them to know that we may
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have not shared already. Know, just get inside the book, be a
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co othen because you never know what what you shared, maybe help someone else,
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and no matter, because we all got all kind of walks of life.
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So just sharing in the book of your testimony or whatever, a prayer,
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whatever you feel that supports you to help someone else. I say,
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this will be a good project. Join the book, come on and be
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a co author. And also too, I do have plans plans on even
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though I know the book will come out in twenty twenty five, but me
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and my husband talked about doing the release party because this is my first book.
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But not only I'm doing it for me, but I'm gonna do it
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for all the cast that's inside the book. That you all be invited to
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that release part of this book that we're doing. So yeah, I just
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say, John, yes, yes, sir. So if you have a
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story, if you have a message, if you have a testimony, even
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if you're going through right now and you just want to share it may help
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somebody else, y'all. I keep saying, this is my mottol and and
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and I'm gonna say it until I can't say it, and I'm more until
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I can't until I take my up. If you won't change, you got
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to be that change. Change starts and ends with you. Nobody's gonna save
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you. There's nothing new un of the sun. There's nothing. There's no
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white horse is coming out of the sky. Mh. So if you if
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you won't change, if you want to come out of what you we got
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to learn how to begin to speak life over yourself. So allow your words
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to speak, because somebody need to hear your words. If you're tuning in,
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if you catch the replay, if somebody shared with you, it's meant
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for you. So if you're hearing this, go ahead, connect with Shanaria.
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Let me put Shanaria, what email address you want to use, because
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I was using an email address for the war and women of Faith for what
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email address? Because I don't know if do you have the logging information for
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that? I don't mm hmm, what information? What email address you want
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to use? Your your email address? Put it in a chat and I'll
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put it out on the thing so people can email you. So regular email.
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We're going to be having a landing page. We're gonna be setting up
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some different things. There's gonna be a lot of different things that we're going
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to be doing for this book and for this product. That So, what
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is it? I just sent you an email. Let me see if I
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can pull it on Robert and I just sentuated I'm trying to move up to
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what's the names? I can click on it? There you go? Hey,
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Yahoo, that Yahoo I got you. You need to get you a
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link treat too. Yeah. I was working on that one. Yeah,
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h mm hmm. Y'all may hear my grand kids in the bad I got
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them for the weekends. Okay, we don't hear them. We don't hear
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them, and if we do, we hear. We have a noise all
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the time. We podcasts, we have we annoy us all the time.
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Okay, sometimes it is I rather hear the the noise and some of the
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noise I've been hearing sometimes. But I put it up. The email address
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is if you guys want to get connected to this project, please email Shinaria
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and get signed up. Book is gonna drop in January. Just it's gonna
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be some things. He said, you have to think of a name for
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the group, since we don't have to change it for I don't want.
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I don't want, but yeah, this is gonna be amazing, it's gonna
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be fun. Yes, we definitely we do. Like I appreciate my kings,
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and then we got some amazing kings. Elijah kay Lewis, you might
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need to join the project as well. Powerful young man out of Baltimore.
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He's a a powerful black king. He's doing some amazing stuff. So definitely
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I want him to get connected to it. But I'm challenging. I'm challenging
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all of my kings. That's a part of kings. You're you're not forgotten
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to join this project and allow your voice to speak because those are some powerful
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men that are in that book, Shania, when I tell you that,
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some powerful me in in that book, some powerful men in that book,
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and they need to be a part of this project because I'm telling you,
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these kings didn't know we got that back. Are our keys didn't know we
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got that back? So I appreciate I appreciate you for allowing me to,
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you know, to bring your vision the past. So thank you, and
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I look forward to working with you and afford to working with Snette and hopefully
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get the opportunity to work with some more. Thank you, she's saying.
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The men that they were they loved the book. I'm not forgotten book.
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It's a book that I do for the men that are incarcerated. And I
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also shared some of their story as well. So yeah, but yeah,
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I'm gonna let you go on. I think they have enough information. Of
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course, we're gonna keep sharing it. You just keep sharing a flyer and
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then we'll just we'll we'll continue to meet and we'll thank everyone that has tuned
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in this afternoon. Please share this out and support Seer. The email is
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in the comment session and they can also You'll see y'all next time. Y'all
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have a great evening, read the start the week. The weekend is over,
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we'rend is over. When you go and take it. He a baby
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and and our time. Lady, you have a great the rest of your
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evening. Okay, you too, and thank you so much, and thank
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you guys for jumping on and talk to y'all sooner. Yeah, all right, okay hm