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Speaker 2: Man, More Better, More Better, Got a little more better.

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Speaker 3: More Hello, and welcome to More Better, a podcast where

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Speaker 3: we stop pretending to have it all together and embrace

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Speaker 1: At least trying to. That's Stephanie Beatrice.

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Speaker 3: That's most Femarrow. Welcome back to the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hi mo Hi.

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Speaker 3: No one else can see this, but I mean, look

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Speaker 3: She's constantly like drying. She's like, I'm a motherfucking princess, bitch. Also,

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Speaker 3: You don't have to make any compromises with anybody about like, oh,

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's actually a really good point for Lucy. Lucy

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Speaker 1: good That's a really good point for Lucy in London

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Speaker 3: Like there's options, there's options with bats. I like that.

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Speaker 3: under your doormat. Babe, don't do it. Don't do it,

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Speaker 3: I actually think that's a good I thought that.

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Speaker 3: Could go to like Goodwill and get some that aren't

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Speaker 1: Get older, the dirtier, the better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and leave them outside. And that's actually a really

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Speaker 1: many times even now, where a neighbor's been like, hey,

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Speaker 3: just like be a little extra friendly, get a sense

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00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,040
Speaker 3: of who your neighbors are.

440
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 1: It's good to know if anyone does have like off

441
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:07,360
Speaker 1: vibes or creepy vibes, like and find, you know, try

442
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 1: to find the ones that have good vibes, you know,

443
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 1: keep it neighborly, keep it friendly. You don't got to

444
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 1: be best friends with them. They don't need to come over.

445
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,439
Speaker 1: You don't need to have that kind of life. You

446
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,360
Speaker 1: don't need to have a glass of wine with them.

447
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 1: You just like just keep it, but keep it very surface.

448
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 1: But they could be instrumental should anything shady or weird happen.

449
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,639
Speaker 1: You know, they're like, oh that nice girl in that apartment, Lucy,

450
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:37,919
Speaker 1: you know, I don't like the way her door looks.

451
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 5: I'm gonna careful. But also, you're woman living alone. People

452
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:49,880
Speaker 5: be creepy as fuck, especially men. Surprise, surprise, surprise, I liked.

453
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: I liked this one too.

454
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 2: Uh.

455
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 1: When I lived alone, anytime I had food delivered, I'd

456
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,880
Speaker 1: always call foods here over my shoulder to my fictional

457
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: boyfriend or housemaid as I accepted the delivery, so it

458
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: never seemed like I was alone.

459
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,120
Speaker 3: That's a real one. Or just ask them to drop

460
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 3: it off outside the door, like you can, like you

461
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:08,880
Speaker 3: don't have to open the door anymore.

462
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 1: You don't need to open that door. Yeah, keeping things

463
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 1: like bear spray or pepper spray by your front door,

464
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: that's a good end. Goes with my bat in the bedroom.

465
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 1: We love that. That's thought was good. Check your mail

466
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 1: and irregular patterns like don't check it every day.

467
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so tiki TALKI.

468
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,160
Speaker 1: There was this tiki talk. Did the tiki TALKI say.

469
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 3: There was this TikTok of this girl who she lived

470
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 3: in I think Hollywood, and she walked home from getting

471
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,719
Speaker 3: coffee and this guy followed her home and like wouldn't

472
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,360
Speaker 3: stop stalking her, would like come to her door, try

473
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 3: to like bang her door down once like threw himself

474
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,240
Speaker 3: against the door. So you know, just proceed with caution,

475
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 3: especially like in big cities where and I'll tell you

476
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 3: a personal story from London. I think I've shared this

477
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 3: on the pot before, but if I haven't, I took

478
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 3: a picture on our balcony within a ward that we

479
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 3: won for something for like Bruno being like top of

480
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 3: the charts or something in London, and I took a

481
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 3: picture on our balcony. Didn't think of anything of it.

482
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,959
Speaker 3: We posted on our Instagram, and then like the next morning,

483
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 3: someone had figured out where I lived and I started

484
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,919
Speaker 3: getting followed from the theater like home and like I

485
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 3: had to get a driver, and you know, like it

486
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,640
Speaker 3: just became like a whole thing because somebody figured out

487
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:38,479
Speaker 3: where I was living and it just like proceeded with caution,

488
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,119
Speaker 3: especially with like social media and like neighbors and depending

489
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,239
Speaker 3: on where you live and like be cognizant of your

490
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:49,639
Speaker 3: surroundings and you know, all that kind of stuff because like, unfortunately,

491
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 3: we live in a shit world where people do shit stuff.

492
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 3: So you know, but back to like the good parts

493
00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 3: of living a yes, more better, more better is I

494
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 3: want to talk about. I feel like one of the

495
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 3: things that really changed for me living alone was I

496
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:18,640
Speaker 3: felt like I felt it and it the big live

497
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 3: alone because I had done it a little bit before

498
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 3: or here and there. But like you said, rent is expensive,

499
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,360
Speaker 3: and I had a lot of roommates. But when I

500
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 3: had this like big breakup and moved out on my

501
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 3: own for the first time, like that, I was the

502
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 3: one that was like, this apartment was mine. I was

503
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,679
Speaker 3: gonna make it mine. I left this part of my

504
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 3: life behind and you know, maybe I'll never be with

505
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 3: somebody else. I didn't know. At the time. I felt

506
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 3: so much independence and so much freedom because I was

507
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 3: learning so much about myself at the time, I like

508
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 3: sometimes was really messy. I did go through a lot

509
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 3: of stuff in that apartment. I struggled with a lot

510
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 3: of things, and like I just you know, it was

511
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 3: such a growing experience for me, and like I'm really

512
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 3: excited for you, Lucy and anybody else that's like living

513
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 3: alone maybe for the first time, or is living alone

514
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 3: because there's so much to learn about yourself and there

515
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 3: is so much freedom in living alone. And like one

516
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 3: of the things that I want to hit again is

517
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 3: like that space is yours. And part of my experience

518
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 3: with having my own place was, especially when I was younger,

519
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 3: I didn't love or respect myself enough to always keep

520
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 3: my space beautiful and welcoming for myself and welcoming for

521
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 3: other people. Like sometimes I just didn't feel like I

522
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 3: deserved it, I think internally, and so like it would

523
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 3: be really messy and shitty and dirty. And when I

524
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 3: started myself the gift of cleaning up and decorating and

525
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 3: having a space that felt like when I opened it,

526
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 3: it felt like like when I opened the door, it

527
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 3: felt like a sanctuary from everything else. It was such

528
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 3: a it was really big gift that I gave myself

529
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 3: when I started doing that, and I still to this

530
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 3: day like keep up that habit, and yeah, like things

531
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,959
Speaker 3: get messy, Like my office is kind of messy right now,

532
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 3: but it's never a disaster. It's never like disgusting like

533
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 3: the way that it used to be. I mean, I'm

534
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 3: talking like plates of you know, pizza bones, like the

535
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 3: crust like underneath my bed, and like you know, piles

536
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 3: of laundry that were like, oh my god, I have

537
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 3: no clean underwear in this house, you know, so embarrassing

538
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 3: that like there were times when it was so dirty

539
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 3: that I couldn't have friends come into my house. I'd

540
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 3: be like, no, I'll meet you somewhere else, Like my

541
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 3: house is disgusting. And I'm talking like a disgusting level

542
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 3: right like not hordor level, but just like I didn't

543
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 3: care about myself enough, Like I didn't care. I thought

544
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 3: it didn't matter. I thought it didn't matter, and really

545
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 3: it does matter, like the space that you give yourself

546
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 3: and the things like I'm not talking about money, I'm

547
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 3: not talking about expensive I'm talking about like the respect

548
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 3: that you have for yourself to be like I deserve

549
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 3: to be able to come into this space and have

550
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 3: it be okay for me and have it be nice

551
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 3: for me. I mean, I didn't even know that when

552
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 3: I was in New York for in the heights and

553
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 3: that wasn't even that long ago. But like, I could

554
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 3: have done more for myself in that space, but I

555
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 3: didn't feel somehow some way, I didn't feel like I

556
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 3: deserved it. I was like, I'm just here to work,

557
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 3: and it's like, whoa, I'm not just here to work.

558
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 3: I'm also like sleeping in this bed and like, yeah,

559
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 3: living to have Yeah.

560
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: Have like rest and relaxation like when you get home

561
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: when you're down time. Yeah, and sanctuary.

562
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 3: Yes, that's big.

563
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: I love that. That's such a good like check in

564
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: touchstone for people, I think, and hopefully or loosey when

565
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: she first is living on her own, if she sees

566
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: any of those patterns of digging into like oh okay,

567
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: what's what's my relationship with the space? Why is this happening?

568
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 3: Like why am I leaving the dishes in the sink

569
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 3: for a week and a half? Like why am I

570
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 3: doing that? What's going on with me that I'm doing that? Yeah?

571
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. I love that. But yeah,

572
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: I think that there is like such freedom and empowerment

573
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: that comes from living alone. And I did not Yeah

574
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: I don't. I did not find you know, and if

575
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: you do feel lonely. It's like if I your homies over,

576
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: you know, like go, you know there's I don't find

577
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: loneliness to be for any of my close friends too

578
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: that live alone, to be part of the experience, Like

579
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: they love their sanctuaries, they love their space, they love

580
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: to have that time alone. Oh my god, you can

581
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: do like fun, weird shit in your apartment and no

582
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: one will know. You know. I loved there was like

583
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: this one quote isis put in our out line? Oh,

584
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: I think it was another BuzzFeed article people who live alone,

585
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: revealing the weirdest things they do. But this one person wrote,

586
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: I dress up in a ball gown. I found it

587
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: Goodwill and drink Tall Boys while doing puzzles and listening

588
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: to murder podcasts. And honestly, I lat one sentence made

589
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: me feel I was like, did I miss out on

590
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: a part of like youth because I did not do

591
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: enough weird shit when I did live like the little

592
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: spurts that I lived alone. Man, I would have loved

593
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: to have dressed up in a fucking ball gown and

594
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: just like danced around my apartment or like, yeah, done

595
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: a puzzle that sounds glorious.

596
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, change amazing pajamas and that's me man, Like I

597
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 3: love when when I'm by myself, like it is such

598
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 3: a I mean, I love it. What's funny is like

599
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 3: I'm the total opposite about quiet. I love it quiet.

600
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 3: Like when there's music on and people are around, it's

601
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 3: really overstimulating for me, and I get kind of overwhelmed.

602
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 3: Like every dinner time in our house, I'm overstimulated and

603
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 3: overwhelmed and usually have to be like please, no one

604
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 3: talk to me for a moment. I truly. And you

605
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 3: know how it is Latinos like cross talk like crazy,

606
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 3: like my mom's talking to my sister, Rad's talking to

607
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 3: me across them, and then Rod's asking me a questions

608
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 3: and there's like music playing and like we have to

609
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 3: get the food on the table. I'm just like like.

610
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: How our house is on a daily basis.

611
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 3: It's so much and so when I'm by myself when

612
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 3: it's quiet, oh, I love it. I love it. I

613
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 3: also love like the weird shit that you get to

614
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 3: do by yourself that like maybe you've never done when

615
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 3: you have to live with other people, like talking to

616
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 3: yourself or doing you know. I really liked that the

617
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 3: quote in there that was like, sometimes when I'm bored,

618
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 3: I narrate my activities David Attenborough style. I read aloud,

619
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 3: Like if I'm by myself, sometimes I'll read my book

620
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 3: aloud and I really enjoy that. Yeah, not for hours,

621
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 3: but sometimes I just like read a little bit aloud.

622
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 3: It's fun, more.

623
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: Better, it's total freedom, Lucy, enjoy it all. Someday you

624
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: might live in a loud ass house with three other boys,

625
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: two of them that you made and one that you

626
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:22,239
Speaker 1: chose to marry, and a dog, and your house is

627
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: just people yelling all the time. And so enjoy this chapter.

628
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: Enjoy this chapter of your life before you graduate into

629
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: total adult chaos.

630
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, this is gonna be fun, beautiful chaos, beautiful chaos.

631
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: I love my beautiful chaos. Yeah. Had I had I

632
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: known when I was younger, I might have chosen to

633
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: live alone a little bit longer.

634
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 3: Hey, man, there's always our like eighties nineties. We can

635
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 3: be like, let's get you get a little house over there,

636
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 3: and I'll be in this little house over here.

637
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: And I'll be in this house over here. People do

638
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: with you when I feel like seeing you, people do?

639
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: I get it you.

640
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 3: Sorry, I love you, so do you feel a little

641
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 3: more better. I do this.

642
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: You know, this conversation actually made me look forward to

643
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: maybe the next time I'm on location and like doing

644
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 1: more weird shit while I'm alone in whatever apartment or

645
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: house I'm in. Do you feel a little more better?

646
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 3: Yeah? I like truly treasure the times that I got

647
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 3: to live by myself and I learned a lot, and

648
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 3: you know, I get to connect to that and tiny

649
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 3: way sometimes when I go out of town for work

650
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 3: and you know, yeah I forgot. I think I forgot that.

651
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 3: I can also make it, make it nice, like Derenda says,

652
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 3: I can make it nice for myself ways that you know,

653
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 3: maybe other people won't appreciate it, but I will and

654
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 3: that's fine.

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Speaker 1: But you will.

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Speaker 3: And that's all that matters, because it's your place, that's right,

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Speaker 3: That's right. I do love. That's why I love a

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Speaker 3: the like paintings on the walls, and I had lighting.

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Speaker 3: I had a little I had a blanket the whole thing.

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Speaker 3: I had slippers slippers for the trailer.

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Speaker 1: Yes, slippers. Yeah, that's a big one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Enjoy it, Lucy, Yeah, you enjoy it, girl.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do great. Enjoy your new place.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you guys next time.

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