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BARTLESVILLE HEALTH AND REHAB COMMUNITY · One on One With a Professional

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  Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
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  It is time now for our our one on one with the pro and
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  we have our guests in here from Bartlesmill Health and Rehab and lordy, I
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  gotta tell you I love mondays. Uh, but we got our video all
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  set ready to go here we were all happening. Cordell Ramsey and also Tammy
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  Fowler with Bartlesmill Health and Rehab. Good morning to you, good morning.
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  All right, there you go. We can hear you. It's uh,
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  we've got something new, like a lot of things new, a lot of
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  going on at Bartiswell Health and Rehab. Courtell go ahead, you're you're an
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  you're the administrator. Now I'm the administrator and have been now for about two
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  weeks. Find out where the bathrooms are now? Yes, yes, the
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  irony is it was about twenty eight years ago to the day that I moved
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  here to run this skilled nursing facility, and of course Alex has done a
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  lot of remodel and things since then, so I did have to kind of
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  find the bathrooms and but it's kind of like a full circle moment coming home
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  and just absolutely love it. Excited to be back there now, Tammy,
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  you're the director of nursing. Tell us a little bit about you. I
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  am from Barnesville. I moved away from here in twenty fifteen and took off
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  to do some critical care nursing in Tulsa and kind of traveled all over doing
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  that and came back to Bartie to have a document notarized at Bartlesviil Care Center
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  from my friend, and a week later I accepted the position. So Alex
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  has kind of got that way about him, doesn't he. Yes, I've
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  known Alex a long time. He's like, he's a good person, so
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  I was excited to accept it. Now with Bartles Will Health and Rehab,
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  you think about that a little bit. Okay, that's a nice name,
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  but there are so many components. What's underneath this big old umbrella. That's
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  a great point. So we have independent living apartments and those are great.
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  We offer housekeeping, meal service, those types of things. And then we
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  have long term care so people looking for extended stay. We also have rapid
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  Recovery, which is our skilled nursing. So that's for short term after like
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  after they go into the hospital and they need some follow up rehab and they
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  may come in for five days or up to one hundred days basically just to
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  get them back back in shape and get them back home. And we recently
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  opened our well actually last week was the official opening of our memory care.
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  Wow. And it's it's a locked, secure hall for those that have cognitive
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  impairment that may need to be in a more secure environment. Sure so,
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  but this is brand new, brand new, completely remodeled hall. It's amazing.
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  I'm absolutely amazing. Now when we talk about rapid recovery, that's a
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  that's kind of need too. Everybody wants to get well in a hurry.
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  Yeah. Yeah, a lot of people want to they're looking forward to going
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  back home, but they're not really ready to safely go back home. So
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  we try to provide the therapy that they need and and speech and physical and
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  occupational therapy to get them back to their baseline where they can go home and
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  feel comfortable without having twenty four hour care anymore. And Bartles will Health and
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  Rehab Community. We have so many different components. We actually have people who
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  live on campus, don't we People who are residents. Oh yes, absolutely.
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  Those apartments are fabulous. Yeah, the apartments, they're great, and
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  there's a huge demand for those apartments, Well, there's a waiting list.
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  Yeah, there's always a waiting list. And then the long term care environment,
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  there's a lot of people that just can't make it in their homes any
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  longer and really need to have their meds monitored and eat healthy three square meals
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  a day and that type of thing, and a lot of people come in
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  and just thrive and back to the rapid recovery that's typically covered by Medicare or
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  your Medicare advantage plan. Rarely is there an out of pocket expense for that,
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  so that that's something that a lot of people don't understand. That skilled
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  nursing is typically covered so that there's very little cost, if any, My
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  goodness sakes, it's going to be great to come back home in your case
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  of tammy in this regard, but getting to know the clients, the patients,
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  that's something else, because I understand it's it's kind of like a social
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  thing here because everybody knows everybody and they get to know each other quickly,
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  don't Yes, they do. They Even the residents that I've gotten to know
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  in the three months or so I've been back, they are their own family.
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  They create their own community, and they look out for each other,
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  and they take it very seriously to look out for each other. It becomes
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  kind of like neighborhood watch for some of them that are maybe a little bit
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  better off as far as is their physical health and their mental health, and
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  they look out for the ones that can't. So they constantly come find me
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  and they say, hey, do you know mississ so and so need some
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  help. They're on top of it if they they see it as this is
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  our home, and that's how we try to see it too, is this
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  is their home, and so we're not just coming to work every day,
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  we're coming to their home. So that's how we try to treat them.
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  My goodness, it's got to be not only a great feeling, but an
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  awesome responsibility. Absolutely. But the thing is that it all starts with Alex,
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  the owner, and you know, he's a local person. It's a
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  family owned facility, and with that being family owned, me and Alex have
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  been best friends for twenty eight years. Tammy's known Alex for years. I
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  come in there and it's just it's such a family environment. I felt so
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  I just felt like I came back home and uh, the staff, it's
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  just such a tight knit family environment that you just can't can't hardly describe it.
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  So community in Bartlesville help and rehab community community really is in capital letters,
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  absolutely yes, and and you know it encompasses so many things under one
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  umbrella. So depending on what that person's needs are, we have it all.
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  We have it all. Yeah, Wow, residence centered. Whatever a
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  person needs, whether it's short term, long term, independent memory issues,
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  all of those things, it's all under one roof. And it's great.
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  I understand. They've got a pretty neat, little outdoor facility when the weather's
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  not you know, raining or tornadoing, that everybody likes to kind of gather
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  around. They've they've started a vegetable garden and little planters and I think I
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  saw some strawberries the other day that are that got planted, and yeah,
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  some flower beds. And the residents love to go out there on a nice
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  day and put their hands in the dirt and just feel productive that they're they're
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  home again and they get to go out and they get to work out in
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  their yards. So this kind of negates all those preconceived notions of getting care
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  issue age exactly kind of destroys it all, doesn't it really new model?
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  Yes, yes, And obviously there's people that can age in place in their
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  home sure that they're there is such a need for a place like Bartlesville Help
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  and Rehamber where you can get help. And and I just have seen so
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  many success stories of people that were just struggling at home come in all of
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  a sudden, they're eating, taking meds, getting cared for, and they're
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  on cloud nine. And so everybody tends to think it's doom and loom.
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  I don't. I don't look at it that way. There's so many success
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  stories. Well, you know, you take the hasshole part out of living,
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  my goodness aches and the next thing you know, you're living. Yeah,
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  that's well said, that's exactly. And in the days that we have
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  some music playing and we have people that come in and and perform and they
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  it's like a rock concert some days in our facility. So yes, I
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  understand, we get the some volunteer groups that come in and really entertain to
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  the HILP. Absolutely yes, and and we plan to do much more of
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  that. I know, the old dreaded c word covid uh kind of put
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  a damper on a lot of that stuff. But we plan to really really
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  boost that and involve the community as much as possible to come entertain and we
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  love to have our cookouts, and we're talking about a petting zoo, and
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  we like to bring the kids in and do as much inter genera generational stuff
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  as we can. You know that that's a big learning thing. You know.
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  First of all, the older folks, you know, they really enjoy
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  watching the kids. They say, oh that's coote, but they learn a
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  little bit at something about what's going on in their lives today. And of
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  course the younger kids in return, they say, hey, you know,
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  maybe getting older is not as scary as I thought it was going to be.
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  These people are pretty cool rightly. Have employees that they'll bring their kids
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  to work sometimes and you know they've they've clocked out and they've got somebody picking
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  them up when we encourage them to bring their kids up through there and go
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  visit people. I have some of my grandkids that I bring up and that
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  was what my mom did for me when I was a little one is you
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  know, take me to the nursing home. And I've never ever forgot that.
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  I just you have sometimes it's good for us to teach our children how
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  to interact with the people that need us in the future. And that's what
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  they're they're needing to see. And the and the and the people love it.
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  They just light up. They light up. Well, this is really
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  cool, you know, if if folks want to learn a little bit more.
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  Uh, you've got a great website. Yes, yes, I don't
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  know the website. I believe it's Marginal healthhab dot com. It is.
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  I'm still trying to find the bath. I'll try about that, But I
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  understand you get a lot of traffic on your Facebook page because a lot of
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  folks who have family members or are lovedlands of friends. Uh, you have
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  barns Field Health and Rehab. Everybody gets caught up on what they need to
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  know, right and what's going on. We post, you know, pictures
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  of what's what activities that we had going on and some of the fun things
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  that the rest sent to their families like to see it, you know,
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  off of the internet. Now they don't have to be there twenty four hours
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  a day to see what their loved one had going especially if they exactly I
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  understand that Alex brings Cash the dog in there, right now and the residents
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  just love cash. Yes, yes, and we actually have a staff member
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  that brings her dog Buzz as well. Yes. So it's just it's home
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  and that that's really what it boils down to. And those animals and all
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  those things just make you feel out. Where can we find you just driving
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  around town, folks want to pop in take a visit. It's located directly
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  to the north of the hospital. Well you can't miss that for four Kentucky
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  Place. Okay, well you can't miss that the hospital. It's kind of
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  a good size to land right, yes, yes, and literally it's directly
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  behind the hospital. There's that outpatient surgery Center's we take up that whole block
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  back there. Mind wow and cool. Yeah. So so they can if
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  they want to take a tour, just to give a call and shut one
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  up or step back. Yeah, there's a doorbell that can ring, and
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  they can just ask for somebody to show them around. And between Cordell or
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  myself or even social services, we have somebody that can walk them around and
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  show them, uh, you know, anything that they're interested in. Super
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  and they can call to if there's any questions at all, they can call
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  and it's nine one, eight, three, three, three, four or
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  five. I want to thank you both for coming in in a couple of
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  weeks. Hope to see you both. Thank you all right, folks,
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