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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST EPISODE _17 _HOST NATALIE HARVEY · DA CREW Podcast

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  Well, good evening and welcome to Season two, Episode two of let's chat
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  with Nat. I am your host, Natalie Harvey, and where we are
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  going to come and have the conversation. You know, we love a good
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  old chat. We love a good old conversation. We just love to come
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  and talk about anything and everything that is on our hearts and mind. Tonight
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  is gonna be a little different. I know you guys are normally used to
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  seeing me on the screen and by myself, But tonight I have a special
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  guest. And she is someone that has become near and dear to my heart.
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  She is as I love to call her. She is a seasoned diva.
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  She is a she's amazing. But I want you to come. I
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  want you to see how amazing she is for yourself. She is a medical
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  professional. She's also a writer. She's just so, she's a motivational speaker.
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  She does it all. So, without further ado, I want to
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  introduce my guest to you. Her name is Donna Rankin's Johnson, but I
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  call her Mama Donna. Hey, how are you? I am good?
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  How are you? I'm good? I am well, I am well.
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  I'm just nervous, but I am well. Yes, but I'm with you,
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  So it's okay. Could you hear me. Now, you know you
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  got this? Okay, you know you got this. Yeah, I can
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  hear you. I can hear you. You know you know you got it.
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  So we we're just gonna get right into it. You ready. I'm
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  really hate and that all right? So I want you to you can see
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  I want you to tell us who Donna Ranking. Yeah, I can see
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  people, I can see it. So I want you to tell us who
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  dies. I'm Rankins Johnson is. Donna Rankins Johnson is a sixty nine years
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  young, seasoned lady who is ever evolving. Donna Rankins Johnson is divorced and
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  the mother of one son who's forty two years old. At the end of
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  those twenty three years, I didn't know who I was. So over these
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  twenty six years, I've become in touch with who I am by sitting under
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  excellent teachers for which I am sitting under now, David A. Boris of
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  the David Boris Academy. And it's because I am ever evolving. It's getting
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  to understand the dating street now. So I have to invest with me so
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  that I am protected. When I decided that I am going to date date
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  nice, I know you are also have been in the medical profession for over
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  thirty years. Correct, correct, and you also and you also write,
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  So how did you get to that point? Like what drove you to be
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  in the medical profession and then what also drove you to be home a writer
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  there as well, it's a medical profession. I went to the University of
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  Kentucky to be a physicious assistant. My class work was outstanding, but when
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  I had to do the clinicals, there was a whole nother story. I
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  was passed out somewhere because of blood or the smell of something, and I
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  still wanted to be in the medical so medical administration. Then when I got
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  pregnant, my husband at that time wanted me to be a stay at home
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  mom. But what am I going to do? So I took all of
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  that terminology that I had learned and did medical transcription from home. So I
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  became self employant for thirty years where I would down into the different hospital systems
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  and I was a subcontractor, so that's what I did. So it was
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  as if God was preparing me for what was to come, and that was
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  for me to be a single model. So I was able to be at
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  home with my son not miss any of his functions and continued to grow.
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  Now, writing nice, writing was just was something that it allowed my imagination
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  to be and divorced. And if I may say that I was a virgin
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  when I got married, and I was married for twenty three years and now
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  twenty six years, I am single. But it's how I believe that it
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  was more efficacious for me to put pin to paper than bottom too sheets,
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  if you understand what I'm saying. So I allowed my genation to write what
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  I thought was correct. I don't like how they portray us when they write
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  of us being intimate or in relationships. They never write about us being passionate.
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  It's always something jump in it and there's no love there, there's no
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  feelings. And so my writings have no ethnenticity. So you can you can
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  be that person, that female person, and you can give it a name,
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  because there's no Bonqueisha's, no Swanda's, no Rodriguez, no, none
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  of those names. You can name that character whatever you want to name that
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  character. So you become interactive with my writings. And so that's what and
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  I wanted to show that a black woman could be very passionate and write with
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  feelings and warms. Yeah, nice? What is it? What is mm
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  hmmm, Well we're gonna get to that. We're gonna get to your writings
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  in a moment. But I have I know you. Also, you do
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  a Facebook life that's called you mean Tea with Lady d And how did how
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  did that come about? It was two persons that are dear to me,
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  David Burns and God. Because when I get very nervous, I stutter.
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  So this was not something that I even for myself. Just write it on
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  paper. I don't have to talk to anyone. I did before you,
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  me and Tea. I did Divorce Care and Relationships in Need of Repair under
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  doctor Philip M. Baldwin in Greenville, South Carolina. That was my church
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  and so they it was a group so to teach you how you can go
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  through divorce. Divorce does not have to be cousin and damny and you're just
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  at each other. Now. That was an assignment from God. I told
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  God that I didn't want to do it anymore, and I don't know,
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  I felt grown, and he reminded me that it was not my chores,
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  okay, And during last year he put me in time out doing this ninety
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  day fast that I'm doing right now. And I said, yes, sir,
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  okay, So those are the two people that are dear to me,
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  David Burris and God. So David challenged me to do. He didn't care
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  what it was. Do something for twenty minutes where I had to talk,
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  and because it was live, I wasn't really interacting with people, just to
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  get my feet wet. Right, So April this is twenty fourth April twenty
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  two. So we started it, and God, I think tag team with
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  David, and he said, well, let's get back to basics, because
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  there are young women as well as seasoned ladies like myself who have not had
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  what you had, which was your great grandmother and your grandmother and your mother
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  to pour into you that you are always a lady and that this is God's
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  temple. And so how we're going to treat it right, So back to
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  basics. We're not going to be loud, We're not going to be brazen.
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  We're not going to have everything just hanging out. All of our grocery
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  is overflowing out of the bag. We're gonna get back to basics. Your
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  attitude, how you talk, how you carry yourself, you're not going to
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  go to Walmart with your pajamas are and you buy it on your head and
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  wondering why. Okay, so this is not what we're going to do.
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  So it's back to basics. So just come and sit with me. And
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  I hope that what I impart to you is with love. I hope that
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  you feel the love that I am trying to share with you, not forgetting
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  that I too used to be young, so I'm not trying to take away
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  You're fun, yes, but I do with your find the woman, the
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  femininity within, and it's there. We just have to bring in food.
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  So I have I have sit in and I absolutely love how you every week
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  when you come on, you break down the topic for that week and it
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  leaves and you you give us Bible versus that are so significant to what you're
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  discussing. And I know for me like after like replaying it and sitting down
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  and rewatching you, you see where the two connect. And that's what I
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  love about how you bring forth what you discussed on you me tea with Lady
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  D and I encourage everybody. We're gonna we're gonna let you know. We're
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  gonna let everyone know at the end where you can where they can see you,
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  and all of that. But I have a question, and this is
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  something that I know you and I have discussed a few times, and it
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  was when did you realize that you had a passion for empowering our community?
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  When my son I took him and dropped him off at Mars Hill College University
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  in North Carolina, and I came back home and I cried because I only
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  have one child. I cried because I was emptiness. I cried because I
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  didn't know who I was. I went from being mother and father's daughter to
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  be in my ex's wife, to be in my son's mother. But who
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  am I? I don't know. When they address me, they say,
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  oh, you're Robert and mccatherine's daughter. Just ma'am. Oh you're Georgia's wife.
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  Yes I am. Oh you're Derek's mother. But I have a name.
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  I don't know who I am. So there's a little book when I
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  thought I had to hear on my desk and then it's the Prayer of Jaybas,
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  the Prayer of jay Bass. And so I'm fast and I pray,
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  and I asked God to show me who am I? What am I to
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  do. Now, you know, I've raised my son. We have because
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  he was an excellent father. He had other issues, but he was an
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  excellent father and an excellent cope with me to raise her son. But now
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  it's just me and so the father said, it's time for you to give
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  back. What does that mean? Father, Well, there are you.
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  You are a teacher. You know what your spiritual gift is. Your spiritual
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  gift is that you are a teacher. So the church where I was had
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  a tutorial system, and so I gave back and he kept saying, what
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  you do? So I did divorced care, I gave black and it's always
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  been my assignment. He's never told me that I can stop giving back,
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  okay, so that each time he enlarged my territory a little bit at a
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  time, he gave me just enough. And you work here. Now now
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  you, Natalie have taken me to another And her name was T I call
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  her TK, t K and DJ before you you all have taken me just
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  a little bit further. She has the tk's Chronicles of a Black Sheet.
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  She has a podcast. So I'm like these young people having me on a
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  podcast. This is God taking me just a little bit further, just a
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  little bit further, and so what I'm forever evolving. You mentioned the Prayer
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  of Jabez, and that is something that I have used in my life.
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  And if anyone out there that has not listen or read the Prayer of Jabez,
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  it's something that when you're in that moment and it's you and God,
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  you're asking him to show you, reveal to you in large, give you
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  more, increase your territories. And I can't I see where where the two
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  came in. Where as you're praying that prayer, and it shows you how
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  to increase and how to give back and how to become and how to evolve.
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  So that is very how do you say, not poignant, but it
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  shows the significance between releasing your natural and letting the father in part what he
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  wants for you is for you to impart as well onto others. Because I'm
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  representing him, I'm not representing me. And every time that I talk,
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  every time that I speak, it's just him speaking so that I can hear,
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  okay, So it's not going out just to you guys. It's a
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  constant remind for me, you see what I'm saying, And he never he
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  never gives you an assignment that he doesn't equip you to do that assignment.
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  So he's never gonna have you to go out there and do something because you're
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  representing him, He's always going to equip you. He's gonna have you just
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  sit under someone so you can get the knowledge that you need to do.
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  Because whatever you gain when I tomorrow night sit with David in the DBA David
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  Bird's Academy, that information is not just for me to hoard. That information
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  is for me to share. So I'm always getting which helps me. Now
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  I share and hopefully it helps you. So my next question, and this
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  is something else that I know, it's very dear to both of us.
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  And you know, in a short time you have become one of my mentors.
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  And we also share a bond, not just in writing, but we
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  share a bond in our health journeys as breast cancer survivors. What is something
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  that you would tell women and not just women, men as well, because
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  men get it as well. What would you tell someone that is scared whether
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  and it doesn't just have to be for cancer, It can be anything.
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  Scared to go to the doctor, scared to go get that check up.
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  What would you tell someone what would you encourage them? Like? What words
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  of encouragement would you give them? It's not just about you, It's not
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  about you. There's someone else depending on you. There's a child, there's
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  a husband, there is a mother, there is a grandmother that's depending on
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  you. And so you need you need to always make sure that you take
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  care. This is God's temple. So if you don't go and have it
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  checked up. You have a car, right and if you don't take your
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  car in for oil change, it's gonna throw a rod because you don't have
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  any oil in it. And you really don't have enough money to go buy
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  another car. So what do you do? You make sure that you maintain
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  that car because that car is vital in your everyday living. You are vinal.
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  So you need to take care of this temple. And you need to
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  to read. You need to read. They say that you've got high blood
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  pressure and they've got you on this medicine, and they have you on this
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  medicine. Well have you read up? Have you read that little piece that
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  they put on your your when you go pick up your medicine is a segment
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  out of the PDR. It says that this medicine does this, this,
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  and this and these are the adverse reactions. Have you read any of that
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  or do you just take the medicine? I took truth liberatory. It made
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  my tongue soll. It made my tongue swell tremendously, and it could have
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  it could have blocked my passage of breathing. But if I hadn't gone and
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  taken all of these medicines aside and did one medicine at a time until I
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  came up on that medicine that made my tongue swell, then I read what
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  does what are some of the contraindications? That's one of us when we the
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  important information that they want us to know is always in a book. It's
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  always in a book. It requires you to read. When you don't read,
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  then it becomes a detriment to you. That's what I believe. That
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  is so true. That is so true. And I guess as we're both
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  in the medical field, so as a medical professional, what and you know,
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  we sometimes are our worst, We are the worst patients at times.
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  But just for anybody as a medical professional, what do you what what is
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  that one piece of advice that you would say be in touch with you,
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  be in touch with you. So as a woman that is before menopause,
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  we are still having our cycles, our minstrual cycles. So that woman at
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  the end of that cycle should do a self rest examination. If you are
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  fib orcistic, you should know that that month, as long as it's moving
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  and it's not attached, you're okay. But you still need to get in
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  your mammograms. For me, I found my mass and it was a mass
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  and it didn't move, and I quickly, I will do it next month.
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  But I quickly went to my doctor. He felt it had the mammogram
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  and the ultrasound it indeed was a sizeable mass. So the doctor said,
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  my surgeon said, we're going to do a double mastectomy. No, we're
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  not. My thought, and he said, so when are we going to
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  do it? And I can I don't want to say I can be indignant,
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  but I'm pretty strong headed. And I said to him, I have
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  not prayed and I have not fasted. I have not heard what God wants
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  me to do, and I'll get back to you on this. So he
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  gave me two days and two days are fast and two early mornings. It
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  was so soft. Nowly I heard clearly, I've got it. That's all
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  I said. I've got it. When I went back on Thursday, he
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  said, what are we going to do? I said, a uepec to
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  me, that's that difference of working in the medical field, because you can
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  use terms that theyre going to look at you like, what do you know?
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  And that's exactly what he did. He said, do you know what
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  a lumpectomy is? And I said, I probably have typed more than you've
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  done, and I probably have. And he said well what if? I
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  said, well, we'll deal with the what if after you removed this.
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  So he said when do you want it done? If God tells you to
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  do something, he's not giving you. He's not asking you to wait months.
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  He wants you to do it expeditiously now. And so when he said
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  when do you want it done? I said tomorrow, which is on a
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  Friday. He said, well, let's see what my schedule looks like,
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  and his schedule was open. So he went in. He removed the mask,
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  he removed three lymph glands under my arm and I had to wait ten
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  days thereafter. When it came back, he said, if I showed you
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  these results, would you know how to read them. You're asking me a
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  foolish question. Absolutely, so he laid them on the desk. It read
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  that all of the cancer cells were encapsulated, which means that they're inside of
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  the mask, and the three lymph glands that they took under my arm showed
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  no evidence of metastatic disease. So that meant that it had not gone anywhere.
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  Because I did what God said care he told me he had it.
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  I gotta what is it? We walked by faith and knock by sight.
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  Right, I didn't know he knock by sight. Uh huh. So he
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  he told me I got it, and he did, and it hadn't gone
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  any further. So then he said, well, I want you to take
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  chemo and radiation, and I asked what type of chemo and what he said
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  would cause blood clots. I said no, and he said, well will
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  you take the radiation? I will, Yes, I will take the radiation.
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  So I had thirty treatments of radiation. It sped up my hair turning
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  gray, and it caused this space in my teeth that I never had before.
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  But you know what, I still have both of the girls. Okay,
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  I didn't have to lose anything go back in and have It's just you
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  have to You just have to be in tune with your body. It's just
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  imperative. Yeah, well we're gonna we're gonna wrap up. But what I
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  want you to do, it's just let us know when we can see you
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  Me Tea with Lady D. What night and what time? And also when
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  can we expect for your writings to be published or are there already published?
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  No, you Me and Tea with Lady D. It's on Facebook on Thursdays
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  five thirty Pacific, seven thirty Central a thirty Eastern, and that is you
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  can send me a friend request. It's under Donna Rankins R A N K
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  I N S. Johnson. I also uploaded on Instagram and YouTube and thread
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  like you young people, all of them anyway. So YouTube is you Me
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  and Tea with Lady D. Instagram is Lady D m R twenty eight J.
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  And it's the same for Thread Lady D m R twenty eight J.
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  Now I want you to just I know we're coming close, so I just
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  want you to give us just one reading so that the audience can get a
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  feel for what they're gonna get when your work is published. Merciful Jesus at
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  the end of my fast, which is now don't do that, merciful Jesus,
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  at the end of my ninety day fast, which is in May Pentecost
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  Sunday is May nineteenth. By the end of May, I hope to have
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  be able to say, nadlie, this is it, This is it,
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  and the title of it is in French. It is called Triloge. It
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  will be a black book with smoky, steamy letters, and inside of it
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  will be three different books which will be you and me, more please and
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  longing. And it is romantic, erotic, but very tastefully done. Because
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  why I'm a lady. Okay, this is lady always it is. I
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  knew it was you. This is the title of it. I sleep with
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  the TV on, but that was not what I heard behind me. I
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  heard your gruffy voice, and I knew it was you. I felt you
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  right here behind me. It was not my pillows down the center of my
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  bed that I back up to. It was you. I felt you,
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  your breath on my shoulder, the way you embraced me and cradled my breast
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  in your hand. I knew it was you, causing me to slowly turn
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  over facing you, and it's as you kissed me on my foe. Yet
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  I smiled as I raised my face to meet your lips, I knew it
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  was you. My temperature was rising, causing your temperature to rise. I
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  felt you. I knew it was you. The way you stroked me,
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  compelling me to place my hand on your chest, only you. I knew
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  it was you. Ever so deliberate, you stroked my thigh, pulling it
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  up and over you. I felt you, in all of your magnificence.
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  As you went to your safe place inside of me. I felt you,
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  and I knew it was you. Then there and there we became one,
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  making love as though it was our first time. I know what is mine,
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  and I felt you, knowing it was you. You were so in
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  tune with me that you felt me stop moving but gripping, gripping, Oh
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  how I was gripping you. I felt you, and I knew it was
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  you. Then it happened and I could not help it, and you did
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  not care. You felt a warmth wash over you, and then you released.
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  I felt you. I wish you were here, I wish you were
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  these pillows. Yet I knew it was you who well mhm, yeah,
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  as soon as Patrice, Yes, past past the water in a fan,
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  I'm trying to find these are coming. Yeh look yes girl, yes,
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  girl, yes, grab your pearls. Girl, you see your pol Oh
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  my god, ms Donna, Mama, Donna. I thank you so much
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  for being my guest tonight. I think thank you for just being you.
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  Yes, they are loving it. You have listen. I have to bring
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  you back again. You will definitely be back again, and give us the
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  name of the title of the book once it comes out. It will that
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  way, and matter of fact, let well, of course, you'll let
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  me know so that I can let everybody know. It is triloge. Triloge,
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  not trilogy, but trilogy, the French pronunciation and spelling of trilogy.
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  And it will not have a man, okay of it with his chest,
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  really, it will not. It will not with his hand in his crotch.
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  It will not have women bulging all out, it will not. It's
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  just gonna be us. I wanted to intrigue you as to what's in this
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  book because it's all that says is but mm hmm mhm nice. Nice,
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  I can ask ladies and gentlemen, thank you. You can see the comments
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  right I talked. You did excellent, You did excellent, you did wonderful.
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  Well, that is it. We're gonna wrap up for tonight. Thank
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  you again for watching us chat when Nat, we will be back. We
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  will definitely. Once Miss Donna's book is published and hits, we will have
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  her back so she can fill us in on everything, and we're gonna be
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  We're gonna we're gonna enjoy this with her. So I have a good night,
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  see you guys again. Ms Donna, thank you so much. Love
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  your night. Everybody by. You're welcome. Turn off the legs, Lady
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  can down.