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One Leg Up With Gratitude During Thanksgiving Week 11-20-23 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Welcome inside to the Alex Garrett Podcast Network
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  and special announcement here on the one leg Up feature, we have a new
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  podcast housed under this network. Welcome aboard to trial attorney Mario Galucci. You
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  could find the first episode in the link below and the channel in the link
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  below in this description, so welcome aboard, mister Galucci. Look forward to
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  working with you. Great first episode and so much more to come. Now,
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  there are a lot of things on my mind today. Firstly is this
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  article I wrote on the writings of Alex Garrett, and the basis of this
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  is that I'm kinda tired of I don't want to be abrasive or cause about
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  this. I'm tired of loved ones and close friends and family passing away at
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  such a fast rate. And yet I'm thankful that we get to do this
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  podcast and continue the legacy of those who have gone before us. This year's
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  been tough. Losing Max and my dad have not been easy, and it
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  still will never be easy. But I wrote what I wrote on my word
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  Press because I had to get out in the open. Then I'm tired.
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  I'm tired of feeling like there's a how do I say, feeling an obligation
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  to memorialize those before us every month, So I'm going to try and tailor
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  it in twenty twenty four to the special days because we in every month.
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  I feel like makes my page look more morbid than positive. And I always
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  like to keep an upbeat thing on my feeds, as you know Alex G,
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  NYC one and elsewhere. But when you suffer loss like that, it's
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  not always going to be easy. So here's what I wrote in my article
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  for Thanksgiving Week titled Tired but Thankful. If you indulge me, I would
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  like to share this with you and really put what I put to pen to
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  paper from paper to now the microphone. I wrote. Since losing my best
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  friend Max Gold in January and my dad in April, doing what I can
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  to continue their legacy has been an undertaking I lovingly take on. I'm praying,
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  however, that everyone has good health heading into the holiday season that definitely
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  includes mental health. I've always enjoyed posting positive moments and events, and I
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  felt that posting memories of those gone before us have my my page a bit
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  morbid. In twenty twenty four, I work on balancing carry on legacies and
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  posting positive thoughts and memory and moments in the now. But to be honest,
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  I'm thankful this Thanksgiving that I've had my family, my mom, my
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  stepdad, Vic, my sister Abby, my aunts, my cousins, all
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  of them. Of course, my fiance Gabriella, my group of friends and
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  colleagues, and of course covering the winning teams of Queen's College athletics this last
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  few months have all helped me not totally fall apart these last few months.
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  Growing up in adulting is shouldering loss of loved ones the best I can,
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  while being thankful I can tell the stories of those before us and still be
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  able to write my own story each day onward and upward with gratitude this Thanksgiving
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  twenty twenty three. So yes, there is a bit of sadness that I
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  won't be able to truberate Thanksgiving with my dad this year. But to still
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  be here seven months later, with what I'd like to think is a sane
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  mind and still balanced ed sound character has kept me uplifted and not falling apart
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  entirely so when doctor and Menda Williams asked me about that on invite health this
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  past week, and I said, yeah, I'm gonna be wrang about it
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  and say I'm thankful to have him fallen apart, because I feel like anybody
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  that loses a parent will eventually fall apart. And maybe maybe there's a breakdown
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  and a half. I don't know. The more I keep talking about it,
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  the more I keep imoralizing it him, the more I keep this podcast
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  going. That's the way I've been grieving. To be honest with you,
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  to be very wrong with you. It's a form of grief. I've come
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  to understand that. Ass Now, what I'd like to do is have a
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  clearer mindset so that every month I'm able to just live life and say and
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  know, this is tough. On the day my dad passed, the date
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  I should say, the fifteenth, I want to heal from that day,
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  not get sucked into it all the time on the fifteenth of every month.
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  And I'm thinking that will happen in time. But in a year where we've
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  lost a lot in this nation, we lost Matthew Perry, We've lost different
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  people throughout the year, I think there's still a factor of thankfulness and gratitude
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  that, yes, we may have lost a loved one, but we didn't
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  get so deep into that loss that we harmed ourselves, because that's the ultimate
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  thing that those who go before us would not want. My dad would not
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  want me to lose myself in my everyday life because of him. Max would
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  not want us as his peers and is being more than a brother and more
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  than a classmate, but a brother, weould not want us to lose ourselves
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  because we lost him. He would and my dad would want us to carry
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  on. And so that's what we're gonna do on this podcast is carry on
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  the best we can and be thankful for who we have around us and what
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  we have, and let God decide where our destination is next. Not try
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  and take destiny to our honds, our hands, but trust that God has
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  a destiny for all of us. And once we see that destiny, once
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  we see that path, we go and act on that. As I've said
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  before, every instinct is a sign from God, is a calling from God.
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  Every instinct I am firmly in belief for that. Are you? And
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  when you follow these things, aren't you happier? Don't you feel like,
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  Oh, my God, I followed my gut and I feel so much better
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  that I did. Sometimes we don't know why the gut says get off this
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  training or get on this train. Sometimes we don't know why our gut says
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  propose, but we know it's saying it for a reason, for a good,
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  positive reason, right, because we need to make those decisions, small
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  or big. That's God calling you to make that decision. I'm a firm
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  belief for that, and we should thank God and in prayer and supplication and
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  thanksgiving as the psalm goes, as the reading goes. But the study I'm
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  about to tell you, the survey I'm about to tell you, is fascinating
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  to me. See the Wall Street Journal had released a survey from Mercer and
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  Empower saying that employers are playing an increase of three point nine percent in twenty
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  twenty four. But this is the most astounding stat I'm gonna give you this
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  in the link below. In the Empower survey, which actually has my four
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  oh one k. By the way, americans said that to be happy they
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  would need an almost fifty percent raise. That's a huge raise. But then
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  I think of Thanksgiving and isn't the whole idea of being thankful and being happy?
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  The family life, the fact we have a home, a roof under
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  our head or over our head, the fact we have loved ones we can
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  count on every day. Isn't that what should make us happy? When did
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  happiness become defined by money? Maybe for some it has, but I would
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  say that to have a job, to have an income, there should be
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  gratitude for that. There should be gratitude for that. And so I find
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  it amazing that in this economy there's gonna be a raise of three point nine
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  percent in twenty twenty four for not a union employees about its astounding as Americans
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  saying they would need a fifty percent raise. But that's not what Thanksgiving is
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  about. And that's why so many people are stressed out because of the money,
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  when we need a factor in the time with loved ones, the effort,
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  the rolling up our sleeves should make us happy also. And pray in
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  that for prayer and supplication. Pray on that, pray that your work,
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  your effort, your willingness to show up every day gets rewarded, and that
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  God sees it, because I feel he does, and he will reward you,
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  and he will see it, and we have to be thankful for that.
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  He does see it for prayer and supplication, this thanksgiving, even though
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  we don't see it, he sees it. And that's the best reward of
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  all is when God is looking out for you. That's what we need to
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  be thankful for at the end of the day. But the survey saying that
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  we need a raise, well, when I'm not working hard first and then
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  getting the raise, that's the goal. But read that article in the Wallsteret
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  Journalists. It's pretty interesting stuff, pretty interesting stuff. Now that being said,
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  I want to tell you, I want to say I was gonna tell
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  you, but I've made with survey Junkie a lifetime of twenty five dollars eighty
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  five cents. I'm getting a fifty dollars mark. I'm gonna get there,
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  and you can too. You can make that with surveys after survey after survey,
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  and then of course at the five dollar minium you can redeem. But
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  I think you should aim for more. And what survey junkie does it actually
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  connects you to other surveys with other platforms. So I'm gonna again gonna post
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  this link up, share the invite, and then maybe when you redeem,
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  I also get get a win here, so I'll send you that, I'll
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  send you my affiliate link with them as well, and then of course maybe
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  i'll send you in this podcast link below another Fanatics link, because I just
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  dropped one for the Kelly Green Irish jerseys. You know, the Irish had
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  a huge win over the weekend, massive win over the weekend, and I
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  was excited about that one because it was against wake Forest at home Sam Hartman
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  against his former team, Hartman throwing darts, I want to say, and
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  watching that kid throw is awesome. And I'm wearing my Giants today because Tavino
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  gotta win. They finally got a win. I know it's against Washington,
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  but hey, it wins a win, Gussy win. Talk about with Lou
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  Turmanilo tomorrow. I'm still, for the first time ever turned off by the
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  NFL entirely because and yes, because the local teams not doing great. Even
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  the bills are not what they are usually. I know they beat the Jets
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  tramps him yesterday, causing Dach Wilson to be bench, but look, look,
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  they are not who they are normally on a yearly basis. Can we
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  say that about the bills. I think we can, so Yeah, NFL
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  season not been my go to. I don't even want to talk about the
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  Rangers because the moment I start hyping up a team, they start stinking up
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  the joint. I don't want to be that guy that help that jinx is
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  the Rangers because they're doing so well. But they are, and they're not
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  on the back pages, but they're your winning horse right now in New York
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  City sports. They really are. We'll get to that with Terminalo's take tomorrow.
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  But what makes you happy? What makes you thankful this Thanksgiving? Shoot
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  me an email Alex at alexjanwys dot com, Alex at alexanyc dot com.
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  What makes you thankful? This Thanksgiving? A very challenging twenty twenty three,
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  but we're here in Thanksgiving week? What are you thankful for? And maybe,
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  just maybe I'll read them on the air on the Alexi Garrett podcast Network.
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  Have a great night and enjoy the links below. And if you feel
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  like buying some fanatic gear for the Christmas season, I'm sure they got some
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  Black Ferriday deals going on and I will get a bit of a commission just
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  in FYI. But join me, will you on this journey with Survey junkie
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  with fanatics. Got a lot of coal in the fire or irons in the
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  fire as they say, this holiday season, and that's something to be thankful
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  for. But to be able to say, yes, I've kept it together
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  to make it to another Thanksgiving, that's the biggest gift God could give you.
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  That's the biggest you could give yourself. It's to hold it together thanks
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  to those around you. And that's what I'm thankful for this Thanksgiving twenty twenty
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  three, Talk Tissue