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Massachusetts Expands Wrong-Way Detection, Super El Nino Looms · 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 Monday, May 11th. You'll be interested
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  to know, 29 years ago, today in 1997, IBM's Deep
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  Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a six -game rematch,
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  marking the first time a computer beat a reigning
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  world chess champion under standard time controls.
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  The victory showcased rapid progress in machine
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  calculation and strategic evaluation, sparking
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  debate about human versus machine creativity
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  and accelerating research in artificial intelligence
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  and computing. So now you know. And now, it's
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  time for the weather report. This morning, it's
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  cloudy and it feels like 48 degrees with 4 mile
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  per hour wind. The sunset will take place at
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  7 .53 and it will rise again tomorrow at 5 .23.
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  It looks like we're in for a partly sunny day
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  with a high near 64 and a calm northwest breeze
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  around 6 miles per hour with some light rain
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  possible later on. If you're inland, it will
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  hit a high of 64. Tonight. Expect partly cloudy
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  skies with a low around 45 and light winds around
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  5 mph. The nearshore buoy at Cape Cod Bay reads
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  51 degrees for the water temperature. Looking
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  ahead in the weather. Tuesday is sunny with a
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  high near 63 and a light northwest wind around
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  7 mph. A chance of showers develops Wednesday
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  afternoon into Thursday, with highs holding near
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  63, and winds becoming southerly around 12 mph,
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  while rain becomes likely Wednesday night and
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  Thursday. Conditions dry your Friday with a high
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  near 66 and lighter northwest winds, and lows
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  in the upper 40s to low 50s. Bonjour, food enthusiasts!
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  So stop on by and don't forget to tell them.
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  Sunny Morning sent you. In local news, Massachusetts
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  officials are considering expanding wrong -way
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  driving detection systems across the state following
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  the tragic death of Trooper Kevin Traynor and
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  growing concerns about highway safety. Since
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  2022, The Massachusetts Department of Transportation
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  has tested wrong -way detection technology at
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  16 highway ramps, utilizing solar -powered flashing
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  lights and cameras to alert drivers and law enforcement
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  when a vehicle enters an exit ramp in the wrong
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  direction. Recently, a car was filmed driving
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  the wrong way on Route 1 in Saugus, the same
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  area where Trooper Trainer was fatally injured.
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  The Massachusetts State Police reported over
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  530 calls regarding wrong -way drivers since
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  fall 2024, with calls increasing each quarter
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  last year. Now on to sports. The New York Knicks
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  made quick work of the Philadelphia 76ers, and
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  in the series -clinching Game 4, they once again
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  made it look easy. Miles McBride scored a game
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  -high 25 points, Jalen Brunson added 22, and
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  New York led by as many as 44 en route to a 144
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  -114 road win on Sunday in Philadelphia. The
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  Knicks won the East semifinal series 4 -0 and
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  now advance to the Eastern Conference finals
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  to meet the winner of the series between the
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  Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers. In Game
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  4, the Knicks made a franchise playoff record
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  25 three -pointers on 44 attempts, making 11
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  of 13 in the opening period. In local sports,
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  the Red Sox fell to Tampa Bay 4 -1 yesterday
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  at Fenway, dropping to 17 -23 after managing
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  just four hits. Mickey Gasper went 1 -3 with
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  a double and an RBI, but it wasn't enough. They'll
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  look to bounce back tomorrow night when the Phillies
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  roll into Fenway for a three -game series. Zach
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  Wheeler takes the mound for Philadelphia, and
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  Boston's lineup will need early offense against
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  the Phillies' ace. Fenway's quirks, the green
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  monster, the short porch, can work both ways,
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  but the Sox have shown they can compete at home.
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  First pitch is at 645. On the news front, things
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  got awkward when Jaron Duran deleted his entire
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  Instagram account after defending Roman Anthony
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  against media criticism over injury transparency.
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  Duran's facing his own struggles at the plate,
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  hitting 162 this season. On a brighter note,
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  Red Sox prospect Anthony Ionson is turning heads.
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  The third -ranked prospect jumped from high end
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  to double -A Portland. after just five dominant
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  starts, and impressed in his Seadogs debut with
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  one run on three hits across four innings. Over
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  in NHL news, Charlie McAvoy heads to New York
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  today for a Department of Player Safety hearing
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  on a slashing incident from the first -round
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  playoff loss to Buffalo. An in -person hearing
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  suggests a suspension longer than five games.
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  McAvoy posted a career -high 61 points this season
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  and remains a cornerstone of the rebuild. In
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  top news, climate scientists and meteorologists
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  are sounding the alarm as model projections show
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  growing certainty of a super El Nino. Sea surface
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  temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific
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  could surge more than 5 .4 degrees Fahrenheit
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  above average. challenging records held by the
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  strongest El Niño events in history. Such an
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  event would significantly increase the global
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  average temperature as an exceptionally warm
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  Pacific Ocean releases massive amounts of heat
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  into the atmosphere. Experts have been discussing
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  the chance of a super El Niño since March, but
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  modeling certainty is growing as summer approaches.
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  The latest data indicates that 2026 is on track
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  to become the second warmest year on record.
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  In business news, Edmunds reveals a stunning
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  new auto debt trend hitting United States drivers.
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  Most household budgets are built on a few boring
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  assumptions. Mortgage or rent is the biggest
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  line item, followed by groceries and utilities.
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  The car payment is usually a known quantity.
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  planned around for five or six years. However,
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  that math is breaking down faster than most drivers
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  realize. One in five new car buyers who financed
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  a vehicle in the first quarter of this year now
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  writes a check of $1 ,000 or more every month.
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  This ratio climbed from 17 % to 20 % in just
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  one year. In crypto movement, Bitcoin is up 2
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  % over the weekend to about $81 ,000. Ethereum
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  is up 3 % to about $2 ,000. And XRP is up 5 .5
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  % to $1 .45. Moving on to a more local vibe.
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  In 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 tech. In recent times, typing has
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  been replaced by whispering, and many find it
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  way more annoying. Workspaces now resemble high
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  -end call centers, where employees converse with
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  artificial intelligence, creating an awkward
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  atmosphere. Molly Imkraut Mueller's mumbling
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  has begun to irritate her husband. Once a peaceful
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  routine of putting their toddler to bed has transformed
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  into a struggle for silence. Enkrant Mueller,
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  who operates an artificial intelligence business
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  in Seattle, relies on WhisperFlow, a dictation
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  app that converts thoughts into text rapidly.
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  While efficient, this new method is indeed anointing.
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  The couple has resorted to working separately
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  to maintain focus. and in entertainment news.
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  The future of Disney Plus is a confused mess.
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  Disney Chief Executive Officer Josh DiMero wants
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  the streaming platform to become a kind of everything
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  app. DiMero states that he envisions Disney Plus
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  as the immersive, interactive digital centerpiece
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  of the company. He believes that Disney Plus
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  will become the primary relationship between
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  Disney and its fans. Tamaro suggests that both
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  Disney Plus and Disney's parks serve as places
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  where people spend money engaging with the company's
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  characters and worlds. He frames the two as complementary
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  parts of Disney's brand, creating a more connected
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  fan experience, using technology as an accelerant.
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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
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  the American computer scientist and futurist,
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  Alan Kay. And he said, The best way to predict
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  the future is to invent it, highlighting the
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  transformative power of innovation and technology
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  in shaping our world. 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.