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Matt Hepworth spoke with Listener Allison Kelly who was released from Quarantine on Saturday · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Well, hundreds of people who got caught up in quarantine
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  Speaker 1: the result of a coronavirus outbreak in South Australia were
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  Speaker 1: released earlier than expected on Saturday. It comes after the
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  Speaker 1: Anti government revoked the travel hotspot for Adelaide after it
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  Speaker 1: was revealed a lie sent SA into lockdown last week.
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  Speaker 1: One of those Territorians that got caught up in that
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  Speaker 1: quarantine was my good friend Alison Kelly. She joins me
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  Speaker 1: on the line, now get a Ali.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Hey, how are you good MANE.
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  Speaker 1: Lovely to speak to you on air. I know you
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  Speaker 1: spoke with Katie a little bit earlier this week or
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  Speaker 1: last week, I should say, you got off the plane
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  Speaker 1: straight into the Howard Springs quarantine facility, but you got
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  Speaker 1: let out a little bit earlier than expected.
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  Speaker 2: Ali, we did. That was a big bonus. Hey, that
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  Speaker 2: was a big bonus for a goal. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How did you find out that you were going to
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  Speaker 1: be let out early?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Well, when Natasha Pals did the news conference, I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't actually aware of it. I was just that reading
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  Speaker 2: in my room and literally heard outside the my room
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  Speaker 2: all these whoops and hooray, and I thought, okay, something's happened.
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  Speaker 2: So outside, and most of the people on our block
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  Speaker 2: were kind of out on the verandahs and saying, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we're getting out, We're getting out. So yeah, then we
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  Speaker 2: sort of all tuned into well a lot we're listening
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  Speaker 2: to the Fashophiles news conference and so tuned into that,
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  Speaker 2: and then we kind of took a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a step back instead, Oh, let's just hang on, just
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  Speaker 2: let's wait till we get told let's not count our chickens.
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  Speaker 2: And then we got really quite quickly after that, we
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  Speaker 2: got any a text from the welfare team to say that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was that we would be released on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how did you feel that that moment when you
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  Speaker 1: put your book down and you went, what's all this
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  Speaker 1: yelling and screaming going on? And you walked outside and
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  Speaker 1: found out the news.
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  Speaker 2: Look really really, really good and and and everybody was
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  Speaker 2: all caught up in the moment and it was just
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  Speaker 2: really nice. And we've all, you know, we were all fine,
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  Speaker 2: and we've all got to know everybody on our little
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  Speaker 2: little line of units there, and yeah, we all kind
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  Speaker 2: of were just like, can we believe this? Is this
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  Speaker 2: really going to happen? And we were we were just
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  Speaker 2: very very lucky that we didn't end up doing the
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  Speaker 2: full fourteen days, and you know, we're just thankful for
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  Speaker 2: that really. So once we got it was confirmed, we
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  Speaker 2: all wanted that confirmation i think from them, from the
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  Speaker 2: from the guys on the ground here at the there,
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  Speaker 2: at the welfare center. And once we've got that text,
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  Speaker 2: then everybody kind of ran back out again and was like, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's real, we're actually doing this, you know. So it was,
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  Speaker 2: it was, It was great. It was a lovely feeling, Allie.
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  Speaker 1: What was those I think it worked out to be
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  Speaker 1: about five days in quarantine, like.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely fine, absolutely fine, as I said, right from day one,
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  Speaker 2: and even with the sort of the shock of actually
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  Speaker 2: finding ourselves in there, everything was just fine. And look,
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  Speaker 2: five days that was nothing, was it? Even the fourteen
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  Speaker 2: days would have we would have not gone crazy. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: was smashing How hard is it really too? We were
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  Speaker 2: in our rooms, we could go for walks, the food
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  Speaker 2: was delivered to our door. The staff, as I said,
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  Speaker 2: from day one, were amazing. You were on the end
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  Speaker 2: of the phone. We had welfare checks, we had health
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  Speaker 2: checks every morning, and so how hard is it for
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  Speaker 2: us to just sit in our room watch TV read
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  Speaker 2: books compared to, as I've said previously, what everybody else
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  Speaker 2: is going through and the staff that we're having to
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  Speaker 2: deal with, all this lots running around, and you had
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  Speaker 2: click and collect, You could order what you wanted and
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  Speaker 2: have that brought into you. That's not really hard, is it.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to put it into perspective.
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  Speaker 1: And how did that go for you? Because I know
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  Speaker 1: that I mean going down to Adelaide. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: clothing that you had packed would have probably been a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different to you know, what you had in
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  Speaker 1: Adelaide for up and down. So were you able to
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  Speaker 1: organize a click and collect and get some clothes and
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  Speaker 1: a toothbrush and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we look. I was very lucky because I packed
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  Speaker 2: for every eventuality going. So I had the biggest suitcase
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  Speaker 2: and had literally everything that I would possibly need for
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  Speaker 2: any any temperature. My husband not so much. He packed
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  Speaker 2: more sensibly, but I ordered. We could click and collect
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  Speaker 2: from Big w or Kmar and you could get like
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  Speaker 2: a you know, sort of ordered shorts for him and
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  Speaker 2: just more comfortable clothing. As I say, I was, I
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  Speaker 2: was pretty okay. And any extra toiletries because we didn't
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  Speaker 2: have anything like that. That was our first I think priority.
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  Speaker 2: We got the toiletries that we required just to see
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  Speaker 2: us through for the the able two weeks, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as it was meant to be. Once you've got those,
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  Speaker 2: I ordered some books, magazine. You kind of that was you.
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  Speaker 2: You were fine.
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  Speaker 1: It would sound like you've had a mini holiday there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, you've got to you're going to be realistic.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know it was. It was boring. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm not I'm not a huge sit in
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  Speaker 2: front of the tally. But you did what you did
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  Speaker 2: and we could go out, and we could go for walks,
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  Speaker 2: and we were talking to other people. We got to
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  Speaker 2: meet other people obviously, and you know me, Matt, I
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  Speaker 2: literally talk to anybody. So I made some new friends. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and we couldn't change the fact. So you made the
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  Speaker 2: best of what you have and we did, you know, Ali.
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  Speaker 1: The big question is have you got any travel plans now,
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  Speaker 1: because obviously you learned the hard way that the government
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  Speaker 1: can call a hotspot on anywhere at any time coming
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  Speaker 1: up to Christmas? Are you planning on traveling again? Has
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  Speaker 1: it put you off at all?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not planning on traveling again, and it really did
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  Speaker 2: open my eyes, and I and and and in all honesty,
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  Speaker 2: I my first initial reaction was, well, that's ridiculous, you
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  Speaker 2: can't do this. But the fact of the matter is
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  Speaker 2: it can change in a heartbeat, and that's exactly what
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  Speaker 2: happened with us. So it has put me off not
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  Speaker 2: not so much traveling. I think if I wanted to,
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  Speaker 2: and I really feel like my son's down in Adelaide,
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  Speaker 2: if I want to go back and see him, I
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  Speaker 2: really would, but I think I would consider so much
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  Speaker 2: more than I did this time. And it is a
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  Speaker 2: it is a realization for everybody. It can change in
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  Speaker 2: a minute, and you've got to you've got to take
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  Speaker 2: that on board and just be aware that this could
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  Speaker 2: happen to you, because because it did to us, and
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  Speaker 2: we didn't even consider that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had, I was planning to go to adelade
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  Speaker 1: in about all days time. And yeah, I think we
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  Speaker 1: were on and off, on and off for a while.
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  Speaker 1: And in the end our flights Jetsta canceled. Our flights
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  Speaker 1: were due to fly out Friday morning. And it is
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  Speaker 1: just a reminder. I mean, you know, we'd booked the
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  Speaker 1: flights about two weeks earlier, myself and my partner Carli,
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  Speaker 1: and we thought, oh that you know, there's you know,
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  Speaker 1: we don't need to worry about something like we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to Melbourne or anything like that. We thought, gee,
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  Speaker 1: if there's any place where we'd be guaranteed a safe holiday,
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  Speaker 1: it would be Adelaide. But as you learned firsthand and
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  Speaker 1: we've learnt as well, is that you know it can
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  Speaker 1: change at any time.
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  Speaker 2: And we actually said exactly the same when we plan
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  Speaker 2: to go down and we were saying, and even when
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  Speaker 2: we were in Adelaide with my son and his friends
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  Speaker 2: and such, we were saying, look, we're the two safest
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  Speaker 2: places here. We're really lucky. And we were say in
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  Speaker 2: all of that, and so even more so with as
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  Speaker 2: being in Adelaide, we felt we were in the safest
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  Speaker 2: place next to the NT And no, that obviously wasn't
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  Speaker 2: obviously wasn't the case. So you've got to really think
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  Speaker 2: through your plans and work commitments and anything that follows
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  Speaker 2: from that, your responsibilities that you have back here. Not
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  Speaker 2: to be too dramatic, but it does have an impact.
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  Speaker 2: It has a big impact on you. Even just for us.
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  Speaker 2: In that short space of time that we were we
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  Speaker 2: were we were unable to return home. It has an
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  Speaker 2: impact on a lot of things. So yeah, just bear
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  Speaker 2: that in mind if you you are traveling, I think, well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you've taken it in your stride. I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad to hear that you are so cheerful and you
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  Speaker 1: got out a week early. And for those who don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I've known you for many years, going back to my
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  Speaker 1: trivia days at Tracy Village. So as I said in
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  Speaker 1: my last message to you, I said, wine's on me
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  Speaker 1: next time we catch up at Tracy Village.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely wines on you. I'll hold you to that. You
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  Speaker 2: know that.
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  Speaker 1: Of course you will thank you talking to she is
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  Speaker 1: you too? Make great? Dat do you buy? That's a
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  Speaker 1: friend of mine? Ellie There she got caught up in
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  Speaker 1: a quarren after flying back from Adelaide what would have
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  Speaker 1: been a week ago. But thankfully due to the fact
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  Speaker 1: that that hotspot has been lifted out and free now
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  Speaker 1: and certainly taking it all in our strides as well.