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season 2: What to expect · The Living Freed Podcast

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  Did you miss me? Because I missed you. So welcome
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  back to the Living Freed Podcast Season 2. I
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  know. I know. And we took the longest break ever.
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  But let's be so real, it was needed. While I
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  was gone preparing for season two, I moved. I
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  had a birthday, which was fabulous, by the way.
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  Thank you for asking. Your girl is now 29. I
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  made new friends, traveled with Serena. We went
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  to San Diego. It was phenomenal. Finally, y 'all,
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  I... Finally got to go to the San Diego Zoo.
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  Loved it. Now, is the North Carolina Zoo better?
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  Yes, yes it is. It's a hundred times better,
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  but I really did enjoy the San Diego Zoo. It
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  was definitely one of the cooler zoos I've been
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  to, so 10 out of 10 recommend going. And they
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  have pandas, so you have to. One out of two zoos
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  in the whole country, you gotta go see the pandas,
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  you know? I got to see old friends. Cassidy came
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  into town from Oregon. Clara came into town from
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  England. Um, it has been great getting to catch
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  up with old friends and then alas, I did have
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  to end a friendship. It happens, you know? Every
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  once in a while in life, it throws you a curve
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  ball and you realize, mmm, I need better friends.
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  So I ended a friendship. I spent quite a lot
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  of time with Jesus. I went to weddings. got grounded
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  in the word and in my life, which we all know
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  I needed, made big decisions, gave this podcast
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  a facelift, and now I'm stepping into what I
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  hope is my soft girl era. Now, what does that
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  mean? I'm not 100 % sure yet, except I'm going
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  to be focusing personally on living a little
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  bit of a softer lifestyle, not hustling so hard,
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  not grinding so much. Just, I don't know, I'm
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  already going with the flow, but just being a
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  little softer and being more intentional to be
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  soft and not so harsh and heading life so head
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  on, as I typically do. In season one, you met
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  me at 28, living my coastal life in Wilmington,
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  North Carolina, and now I'm still here. But like
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  I said, I'm now 29 and possibly preparing to
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  move. I know, dun dun dun. But don't worry, I'll
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  still be coastal, just in a different state.
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  Um, it would take Jesus himself to come down
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  and move me away from the beach. Knock on wood.
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  But listen, listen, I love where I live. I love
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  my friends here. I love my family is so close
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  by. And I love my job. But I believe it's time
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  for a little bit of a change. I prayed about
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  my next step. Definitely not thinking it was
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  going to be moving out of state and out of town.
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  Turns out it's moving out of state and out of
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  town. How did that happen? You may ask. Well,
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  quite a long time ago, I got a phone call and
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  it was Serena saying I had a dream. They moved
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  to Florida. And I said, that's a crazy dream.
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  I personally would never move to Florida. And
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  then I went and stayed with her in Florida. And
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  I thought, I could never live here. And I was
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  standing in her kitchen, overlooking the living
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  room on day three, making pasta. I thought, maybe
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  I could live here. And then I went home and I
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  saw my mom. And my mom told me that she had had
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  a dream that I asked her to lunch, which I had
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  just done. And that I told her I was moving to
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  Florida. And that's when I was like, oh, okay.
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  And then my sister called me after listening
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  to one of my podcast episodes and said, I think
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  you should move to Florida." And I said, that
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  is crazy. And then, you know, sitting in church
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  one day saying, Jesus, I just love my church.
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  I can't move to Florida. I love my church. Why
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  would I leave my church and my job? And Jesus
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  pointed to me that my church is a cult, in fact,
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  at that time, heavily a part of a cult, putting
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  man's desires first before God and being very
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  controlling. So that was another check off my
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  box. And then honestly, y 'all being single in
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  Wilmington, it's just not for the week. And I
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  do dream of being a wife and a mom one day. So
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  I have to get out of this toxic pond and maybe
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  go swim in a different pond and hopefully, hopefully,
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  hopefully, hopefully just get clarity on if I
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  need to keep dreaming or if I just need to shut
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  that dream down and move on and be the next Lisa
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  Harper. Well. Not Lisa Harper, obviously, even
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  though I love her. I just think her life is cool.
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  She's single She's old and she adopted a daughter
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  and I think she's pretty dope Um, and then who
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  wouldn't truly who wouldn't want to do life with
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  their best friend of 20 plus years? Honestly,
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  like that sounds kind of magical Even if it's
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  for a little while you if I try it for a year
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  and I decide I hate Florida get me out of here
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  then Then I can change my mind. I have the freedom
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  to do so I do think it's important once we get
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  through the first quarter of the year to evaluate
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  where we are and where we want to be going. Are
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  we on course or do we need to switch directions?
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  And that, my friends, is exactly what I've been
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  doing, evaluating and switching course. But enough
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  about me. Let me tell you what to expect from
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  season two of the Living Freed podcast. One.
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  I'm launching a new segment that will be focusing
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  on the breakdown of theology. We are all going
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  to simplify the heck out of it and make it easier
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  to digest for the girlies. Two, we're going to
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  have more frequent speakers on here and more
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  to tell about that soon, but I think you're gonna
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  love it. Three, we're still going to be touching
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  on subjects our church avoids and don't speaks
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  enough about. And four, we will still be going
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  through the genealogy of Jesus and all of that.
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  For what? To remind us how to be living freed.
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  Once again, living because of the here and now,
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  the present, and the intention of action. Freed
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  because it's already been accomplished. You just
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  have to choose to treat it as so. We have to
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  choose to live as someone freed and not just
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  wait to feel free. It's so easy for us to fall
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  into patterns of life. Get weighed down, overwhelmed,
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  or just life becomes mundane. And Jesus warns
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  us of that in Luke chapter 21. I want you to
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  live free from the chains of the world and from
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  the legalism of the church. Be free from the
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  chains of how you're expected to act, dress,
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  plan your future, speak, fears or lies that you
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  may believe. I want you to know God's character
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  so well and what his word says when the enemy
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  tries to weigh you down with a chain. You know
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  truth and how to live free in it. My goal for
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  this season is you hear not just me talk about
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  the chains I've been set free from or that I've
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  witnessed others be set free from, but that you
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  continue to hear story after story. I want you
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  to hear hot topics discussed between friends,
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  girly conversations that you can only experience
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  between besties. I want you to hear the good,
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  the bad of our lives, that we aren't perfect
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  because, well, we are all being sanctified. and
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  sanctification is a never -ending process. Listen,
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  listen, we're all learning, right? This is everyone's
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  first time on this earth, even though it definitely
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  doesn't feel that way for some of us. No one
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  here expects you to be perfect, trust me. Out
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  there in your world, maybe people do. I know
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  the world I lived in where people did, but here
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  in our short time together, we don't expect that
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  from you and trust me, Don't expect it from me
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  either because girl, I am human and I will let
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  you down. We are here to do life, to not be perfect.
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  Even though we would all love to be, we are here
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  to live and love like Jesus, not to try and be
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  Jesus. Be ready to keep hearing the good, the
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  bad, the beautiful, and the ugly. No one here
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  is going to misrepresent the life they live because
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  we have no one to impress. God already knows
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  my skeletons and where they are. or are no longer
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  buried deep down in the back of my closet. Listen
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  y 'all, life is already too difficult. Life isn't
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  easy. But why do you allow church culture and
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  the world culture to make it even harder? You
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  weren't called to live this way and it's time
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  you let Jesus set you free and actually start
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  living. There were times when I was weighed down
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  by the ideas that people had of me and you heard
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  me talk about that story. in episode 11 titled
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  If The Mask Fits, Wear It in Season 1. I was
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  weighed down by ideas of what modesty was, not
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  having healthy boundaries, keeping deep dark
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  secrets, and heck, even generational curses.
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  So are you ready? Let's dive in and talk about
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  everyday struggles, the deep late night car combos
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  you have with your friends, and now with my bestie
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  Serena, we might have some heated combos and
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  laughs along the way. We will talk about boundaries,
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  healing from past traumas, hurt or heartbreak,
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  and living free with Jesus and what exactly that
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  looks like. I hope you've decided to come along
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  for the journey. you