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Eli Lilly's $7B Boston Biotech Buy, Bruins Seek Redemption · Sunny Mornings Boston

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  Good morning and a warm welcome to your show,
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  Sunny Mornings in Boston. I'm your host, Melissa,
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  and it's Tuesday, April 21st. You'll be interested
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  to know, 273 years ago, today in 1753, the British
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  Museum opened its doors in London, bringing together
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  a vast public collection of artifacts and curiosities
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  for learning and discovery. This founding marked
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  a major cultural milestone by making scholarly
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  collections openly accessible and inspiring a
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  new era of public museums and education. So now
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  you know. And now, it's time for the weather
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  report. This morning, it's sunny and it feels
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  like 26 degrees with 7 mile per hour wind. The
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  sunset will take place at 7 .32 and it will rise
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  again tomorrow at 5 .49. It looks like we're
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  in for a sunny day with a high near 50 and a
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  light northeast breeze, around 8 miles per hour.
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  If you're inland, it will hit a high of 51. Tonight,
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  expect mostly cloudy skies with a slight chance
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  of rain after 5 a .m., a low around 39, and light
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  winds around 8 miles per hour. The near -shore
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  buoy at Cape Cod Bay reads 44 degrees for the
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  water temperature. Looking ahead in the weather.
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  Wednesday starts cloudy with a slight chance
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  of rain before mid -morning at a high near 50
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  in a light south wind. Thursday turns partly
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  sunny with highs near 60 in northwest breezes.
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  Then Friday stays mostly sunny with highs near
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  57 in northerly winds. A slight chance of showers
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  returns Saturday after 8 a .m. with a high near
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  54 and a 30 % chance of showers Saturday night.
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  Bonjour, food enthusiasts! This podcast is brought
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  to you by Versailles Café and Pastries in Encinitas.
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  Nestled on El Camino Real South, just north of
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  Encinitas Boulevard, this café is a haven for
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  culinary delights. Indulge in their amazing Eggs
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  Benedict. or their gluten -free crepes. You can
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  grab a panini for lunch or just breeze on through
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  to get your morning coffee. They are open every
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  day from 8 to 5. So stop on by and don't forget
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  to tell them. Sunny Morning sent you. In local
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  news, Eli Lilly will acquire Boston -based cancer
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  biotech Colonia Therapeutics for $7 billion.
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  in a significant move to expand its presence
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  in Massachusetts. The deal, announced on Monday,
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  involves an upfront payment of $3 .2 billion
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  to Colonia shareholders, with the remaining funds
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  contingent upon the company meeting specific
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  clinical, regulatory, and commercial milestones.
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  Based in Dorchester's Southline development,
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  Colonia is developing innovative cell therapies
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  for blood cancers. including a promising one
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  -time gene treatment for multiple myeloma. Jacob
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  Van Norden, executive vice president at Lilly
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  Oncology, stated that Colonia's platform could
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  simplify and enhance patient outcomes in immunotherapy.
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  Now on to sports. The National Basketball Association
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  playoffs saw C .J. McCollum and the Atlanta Hawks
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  erupt in the fourth quarter, stunning the New
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  York Knicks with a final score of 107 -106. This
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  victory in Game 2 at Madison Square Garden on
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  Monday night tied the series at one win each,
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  as it now shifts to Atlanta on Thursday. Despite
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  trailing by 12 points entering the final period,
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  the Hawks outscored the Knicks 20 -9 in that
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  quarter. The Knicks could only manage 15 points
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  and shot 5 of 19 from the field during those
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  crucial 12 minutes. In local sports, the Red
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  Sox bounced back yesterday with an 8 -6 win over
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  Detroit, evening that series at 2 apiece. Sonny
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  Gray didn't last long. but Garrett Whitlock picked
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  up the win and Aroldis Chapman earned his fourth
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  save. Yoshida, Narvaez, and Durbin all contributed
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  at the plate, while Kynar Faleka and Rafaela
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  each drove in two. Boston is 9 -13, heading into
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  tonight's matchup with the Yankees at Fenway
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  at 645. Connolly Early takes the mound against
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  Lewis Gill in what should be a solid pitching
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  duel in a division rivalry that matters this
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  early in April. Over on the ice, the Bruins head
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  to Buffalo for Game 2 of their first -round series
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  tonight at 7 .30. The Sabres stole Game 1 with
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  a fourth -period comeback, scoring three goals
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  in under five minutes to win 4 -3. Boston earned
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  the top wild card with 100 points while Buffalo
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  won the Atlantic at 109. Daked Pasternak was
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  excellent in Game 1 with a goal and two assists,
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  and the Bees won 3 -4 against the Sabres during
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  the regular season. They need to tighten up defensively
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  after letting Buffalo back into that opener.
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  Meanwhile, the Celtics host Philadelphia at 7
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  p .m. at the Garden for Game 2. Boston demolished
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  the Sixers by 32 points on Sunday behind 26 from
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  Jalen Brown and 25 from Jason Tatum. The Celtics
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  are 13 .5 -point favorites again tonight, especially
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  with Joel Embiid still out recovering from an
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  appendectomy. In top news... Scientists may have
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  accidentally found a way to reverse hair loss
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  without drugs. What if the cure to male pattern
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  baldness was inside us all along? Research suggests
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  the cure to male pattern baldness might be sugar.
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  The team simulated testosterone -based balding
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  in mice and treated them with deoxyribose sugar,
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  which stimulated blood vessel formation and ultimately
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  caused hair regrowth. Researchers say that the
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  sugar treatment is just as effective as minoxidil,
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  the active ingredient in Rogaine, a hair loss
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  treatment currently on the market. Hereditary
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  pattern baldness affects roughly 40 % of people,
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  and no, it is not exclusive to men. In business
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  news, Connie Ballmer, wife of former Microsoft
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  Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, has given
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  $80 million to National Public Radio, with strings
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  attached. This donation represents roughly seven
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  years' worth of government funding after cuts
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  were made by Trump and Congress, but is only
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  a fraction of the organization's full annual
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  budget of $300 million. Despite the additional
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  funds, NPR may still cut jobs, as the money is
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  intended for digital innovation rather than expanding
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  coverage. Catherine Marr, the NPR president and
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  chief executive officer, is reportedly expecting
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  layoffs. Balmer stated, an informed public is
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  the bedrock of our society. In crypto movement,
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  Bitcoin is up 2 % to about $76 ,000. Ethereum
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  is up 1 % to about $2 ,000. And XRP is up 1 %
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  to $1 .43. Moving on to a more local vibe. In
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  our community spotlight on health and wellness,
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  we are working with a national Pilates studio
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  to bring you some free classes, so listen up.
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  Check out Club Pilates, with several locations
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  in the Boston area. Pilates presents a comprehensive
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  wellness approach, cultivating strength, reducing
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  tension, and elevating mental well -being. Scientific
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  research affirms its benefits. So now you can
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  check out Club Pilates for a free class. With
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  locations in Canton, Wellesley, Hingham, Brookline,
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  and Framingham, just be sure to tell them sunny
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  morning sent you by. And now, back to the show.
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  Let's talk science. Scientists finally understand
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  why birds were the only dinosaurs to survive
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  the end -Cretaceous mass extinction. On the final
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  day of the Cretaceous period, approximately 66
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  million years ago, Earth was home to a dazzling
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  variety of dinosaurs. In North America, the super
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  -predator Tyrannosaurus rex stalked its favorite
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  prey, the three -porn triceratops. A massive
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  asteroid struck the Gulf of Mexico, triggering
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  earthquakes, tsunamis, and wildfires, leading
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  to years of darkness and cold. Three out of every
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  four species became extinct, marking one of the
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  worst moments in Earth's history. This event
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  spawned a pervasive myth in science and in entertainment
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  news. Since he was just 16, Steven Spielberg
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  has been directing science fiction building worlds,
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  weaving dreams, and looking beyond our earthly
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  experience. After photographing him in Los Angeles,
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  we talked to him about a life spent watching
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  the skies. A Twinkly mothership plays five unforgettable
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  notes. A boy and his extraterrestrial friend
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  ride BMX bikes across the moon. Magnetic levitation
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  cars zoom around 2054 Washington. Tripods emerge
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  from the ground. vaporizing fleeing humans into
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  dust. His work attests to Spielberg's status
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  as science fiction's premier filmmaker from Close
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  Encounters of the Third Kind to E .T. and beyond.
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  Well, alrighty folks, it's time for the quote
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  of the day. And today, our quote comes from the
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  American naturalist and essayist John Burrus.
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  And he said, The lure of the distant and the
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  difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity
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  is where you are. And that's a wrap for this
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  morning. You can check out our Instagram, YouTube,
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  and TikTok for some captivating aerial videos
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  with local news and the weather reports. Have
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  an amazing day, my good friends. We'll see you
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  tomorrow with another episode of Sunny Mornings
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  in Boston.