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Tory Horton: "It's A Blessing To Be Back On The Field" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's most meaningful to you about being back on the
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  Speaker 1: field of stad Uh yeah, I feel like just making
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  Speaker 1: most of my opportunities. You know, it's a blessing to
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  Speaker 1: be back on the field, and just trying to take
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  Speaker 1: in every moment, uh cause, you know, just like last year,
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  Speaker 1: you never know when you know it'd be cut short.
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  Speaker 1: So just trying to make the most of every opportunity
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  Speaker 1: and just beat it for my guys. A few weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald's that you guys got really good news and
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be back.
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  Speaker 2: Uh talk us through what doc was like when you
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  Speaker 2: got that good news.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you know, it's just just a whole bit
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  Speaker 1: of excitement. You know, of course, you always want to
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  Speaker 1: hear that, you know, you've been cleared and you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna start progressing to the field work, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's something that I've just been looking forward to. So
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  Speaker 1: having an opportunity to hear that from you know, the
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  Speaker 1: head coach himself, you know, that's that's great to me,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I'm excited about it and I'm just trying.
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  Speaker 2: To keep moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: What happened, Uh yeah, So it was kind of weird,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh about like week three, I kind of
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  Speaker 1: started filling my shin and you know, uh worked through
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  Speaker 1: it through a couple of games, got to week nine
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  Speaker 1: and you know, got it checked up and found out
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  Speaker 1: there was a crack, so you know, I ended up
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  Speaker 1: getting surgery on it.
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  Speaker 2: And that was that was that just just.
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  Speaker 1: Something that you know, it just got you work through
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  Speaker 1: till you can't. So you know, it's just uh not
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  Speaker 1: something that I wish happened, but it did. And you
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  Speaker 1: know we got the issue solve and you know, the
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  Speaker 1: leg ain't going to newhere now, so feel pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, it didn't really like you know, feel
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  Speaker 1: you know, as bad as it got until you know,
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  Speaker 1: after the game, the Washington game. But you know, of
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  Speaker 1: course those couple of weeks before just building up, there
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  Speaker 1: were always a little something there that I felt, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, over the weeks just kind of got worse
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  Speaker 1: and worse, and you know it I finally took the
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  Speaker 1: time to get it checked out and that's when we
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  Speaker 1: found out that.
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  Speaker 2: Get the two touchdowns in watching game and then then
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  Speaker 2: to find out.
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  Speaker 1: You could yeah, you know, of course that's not the
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  Speaker 1: news I wanted to especially after the Commander's game. I
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  Speaker 1: just felt like I let the team down a little
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  Speaker 1: bit just not being able to go back out there
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  Speaker 1: as much as I wanted. It was even times where
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  Speaker 1: I still try to go out there and you know,
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  Speaker 1: run some routes and the trainers have to tell me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to take it easy. But you know, dealing
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  Speaker 1: with a bone thing is you just gotta let that heels.
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  Speaker 1: There's no like you know, playing through that once to
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  Speaker 1: get to a certain point. So you know, I did
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  Speaker 1: the most I could and made it to however far
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  Speaker 1: I got, and you know, when the time came and
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't go no more, I didn't want to put
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  Speaker 1: you know, the team at a disadvantage of me going
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  Speaker 1: out there knowing that something.
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  Speaker 2: Is bothering me.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I feel like we just kind of
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  Speaker 1: made the smart move of you know, just holding out,
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  Speaker 1: seeing if the hills on his own, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of the time kind of got away from usself.
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  Speaker 2: So you didn't have to have surgery. I didn't have surgery.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a metal rod in there, so the
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  Speaker 1: leg ain't going anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the tib so it was the in bone. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Is there ever a thought after the Washington game that
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  Speaker 2: you were be able to come back and play any word.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, of course. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Shoot, I've been playing with it since week three, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, all I thought was gonna come back, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, the initial plan was to come back for playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we was rehabbing so much and you know,
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  Speaker 1: being extremely smart about it and you know, trying to
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  Speaker 1: push through some things to come back for the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Of course that isn't you know, go according to plan.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I'm excited for my guys, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: now we're looking forward to another.
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  Speaker 2: Year, just you know, just trying to move forward from
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  Speaker 2: the injury. When did you have the sturt drink?
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  Speaker 1: Huh was the February after the Super Bowl, So I
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  Speaker 1: got to enjoy the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty certainly different player now than they. Yeah, I just
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  Speaker 1: feel like it's a lot more mental focus on you know,
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  Speaker 1: how I approached things. I feel like, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: going out there playing every single snap like it's my last,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because just having some cussles short so quick,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you kind of look at that and take
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  Speaker 1: it for granted.
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  Speaker 2: Of like, know, I wish I could have done more.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could have did this, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: of course everyone want to make the most out of
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  Speaker 1: their opportunities. And you know, I feel like it just
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  Speaker 1: takes me to the next level of just how dialed
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  Speaker 1: in you gotta be, you know, on yourself and on
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  Speaker 1: your body to you know, make sure you're in the
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  Speaker 1: right no condition, in shape, and just trying to make
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  Speaker 1: sure you just uh, you know, as stable and you
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  Speaker 1: know just as you know, I don't know, just asn't
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  Speaker 1: seek as you could be.
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  Speaker 2: Just go out there and compete every day. Well, you
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  Speaker 2: didn't get a chance to play with for seet you
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  Speaker 2: eat last year. Now you guys are on the same field.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think is possible if you guys out
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  Speaker 2: there together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's a lot of speed on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Me and him talk every day, uh, you know, both
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  Speaker 1: from Cali, so we got a lot to relate on,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we just you know, we just talked about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how how crazy it is to you know, finally,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get some of those practice reps together and
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  Speaker 1: just uh, you know, just see two speeding inside by side,
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  Speaker 1: just going at it. So you know, it's fun out there,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, of course we still got you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the O G General Coup out there coaching us
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  Speaker 1: on everything, and you got to tech and you know,
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  Speaker 1: just all around with just saying, you know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of things out there that you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're just kind of trying to combine and you know,
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  Speaker 1: see our roles and see how you know, how much
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  Speaker 1: weapons and power we got on the field. And I
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  Speaker 1: feel like it's a lot of things that you know,
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  Speaker 1: we got in the bag that we could you know,
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  Speaker 1: switch it up from. And I feel like it's an
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  Speaker 1: exciting year to have that you've now gotten five practices
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  Speaker 1: out here and that you've got to participate it. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: you've gotten five practices now that you've got to participate
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  Speaker 1: out here.
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  Speaker 2: Wu's have been like so far adjusting to this new offense?
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  Speaker 2: How does it compare to what you played with Kobiak
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  Speaker 2: last year? Any significant differences that you've know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I feel like it's pretty much the same,
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  Speaker 1: just a little a little tweets here and there, But
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  Speaker 1: you know, I love the scheme. I feel like Brian
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  Speaker 1: has a great idea and mind know how he wants
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  Speaker 1: to attack this season and this with this offense, and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like they got a lot of things that
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  Speaker 1: they want to try out, and it's the perfect time
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  Speaker 1: to try those out right now. And you know, I
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  Speaker 1: got I got a lot of faith in praising, you know, Brian,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, we got we got a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good season of pedals Troy.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was six touchdowns tod eight games last year.
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  Speaker 2: But before you, before you stopped playing, what did you
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  Speaker 2: think of the start? You were off to the left?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I just I just wanted to make the
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  Speaker 1: most of my opportunities, you know, like I said, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: just something that we practiced on every day. And I
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  Speaker 1: feel like, you know, ball finds energy and I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I just had, you know, I guess I just
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  Speaker 1: had the right energy out there to you know, find
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  Speaker 1: an end zone and you know, just build a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of confidence, Uh, get a little bit of sounds trust,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to trust me out there to at least
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  Speaker 1: giving me a shot, and you know, of course that
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  Speaker 1: would just keep building over the over the time we
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  Speaker 1: you know, have together, and you know, I just try
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  Speaker 1: to make the most out of everything I got.
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  Speaker 2: You