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Speaker 1: Wind Down with Janet Kramer and I'm Heeart Radio podcast.

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Speaker 2: On today's Therapy Thursday, We've got an episode of love

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Speaker 2: with doctor Gloria Horseley and doctor Frank Powers. They are

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Speaker 2: such a cute couple and they have a new book

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Speaker 2: coming out called Open to Love, the Secrets of Senior Dating.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be releasing on Valentine's Day. But let's

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Speaker 2: get a little look into what it takes to have

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Speaker 2: a great love.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Hey, Janna, Hi.

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Speaker 2: I mean I'm talking to doctors. This is cool. I

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Speaker 2: like this.

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Speaker 3: Exactly.

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Speaker 2: How are you guys doing?

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Speaker 4: Wait?

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Speaker 2: Where are you guys? Where do you guys live at?

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Speaker 3: We are right now in Arizona, in Scottsdale and Palo Alto, California.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of home.

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Speaker 2: Base, Okay. I shot a movie in Arizona this past

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Speaker 2: summer and it was so hot, but it was it

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Speaker 2: was so cute. We were in Patagonia, like this cute

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Speaker 2: little small town.

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Speaker 3: I ever been there, No, my grandkids have been there.

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Speaker 2: It's a door. It's really it's a really cute town.

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Speaker 2: It's just I was about fourteen fifteen weeks pregnant when

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Speaker 2: I was filming it, and then just like that that

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Speaker 2: dry heat. I was like, whoa, Oh my god, it's

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Speaker 2: a hot one.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Being pregnant and being there, whoa.

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Speaker 2: I mean, lots of people do it. I'm sure a

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Speaker 2: lot of pregnant women live in Arizona. Yeah. But okay,

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Speaker 2: So you guys have a book coming out. It's called

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Speaker 2: Open to Love. It's a Secrets of Senior Dating. And

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Speaker 2: I just, first of all, how long have you guys

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Speaker 2: been together?

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Speaker 4: For?

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Speaker 3: Two years?

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Speaker 2: Two years? Okay? Because I saw on the notes that

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Speaker 2: you were widowed for what sixty years?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I was married for sixty years and my husband

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Speaker 3: died of a staff in fiction after back surgery.

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Speaker 2: Wow. And then how did you guys meet?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's kind of my backstory. I after my husband died,

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Speaker 3: I so it was that therapist at the time, and

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Speaker 3: I decided to go into a grief group support group.

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Speaker 3: And I went into the group and I met a

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Speaker 3: guy who was a golfer. I met Abbot Golfer, and

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Speaker 3: we started dating and we were dating for a while,

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Speaker 3: and then he ended up moving in with me. And

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Speaker 3: you know, it was great being with somebody, but he

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Speaker 3: was pretty controlling and ups and downs, but I stayed

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Speaker 3: in the relationship because you know, we golfed and he

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Speaker 3: was a great guy. His wife had died a couple

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Speaker 3: of days after my husband, So at Christmas time, we've

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Speaker 3: been together for about seven or eight months, and a

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Speaker 3: Christmas time, a twenty seven of my family members went

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Speaker 3: to Hawaii over Christmas and he came with us. Steve

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Speaker 3: and I stayed a little bit longer, which he wasn't

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Speaker 3: happy about, and you know, he was welcome to stay,

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Speaker 3: but he didn't want to. So he left and went

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Speaker 3: a note from him when he when he after he

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Speaker 4: And he.

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Speaker 3: Ghosted me.

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Speaker 2: How old were you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he said, I'm leaving the key to the house.

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Speaker 3: And we had a joint bank account, closed our bank

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Speaker 3: account and I'm sorry it didn't work out, and that

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Speaker 2: And I was in home, favorite I mean, yes, he did.

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Speaker 3: I was in Hawaii, and I had COVID when I

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Speaker 3: stayed longer, I got COVID. So I'm sitting in my

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Speaker 3: and I'm thought, I'm going to write a book for widows,

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Speaker 3: because I've written some other books. I'm going to write

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Speaker 3: a book for widows and kind of try to figure

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Speaker 3: out what's going on here, you know, in my life. Well,

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Speaker 3: he had talked about online dating, so I thought, well,

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Speaker 3: Steve had done my day. So I thought, I think

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Speaker 3: I'll put in a chapter online dating. So, okay, I've

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Speaker 3: phone and find Silver Singles.

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Speaker 2: Oh I never heard of Silver Singles. That's so cute.

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Speaker 2: What a cute little ring.

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Speaker 3: Yes, So I went on Silber Singles and I signed up,

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Speaker 3: and Frank was the second. I had two people that

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Speaker 1: The first one really helped me out, like Steve did

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Speaker 1: because he had his shriner shirt on, but Dave on

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Speaker 4: Of the bill. I liked pretty good after.

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Speaker 3: That, and then when I got home, the second date

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Speaker 3: was Frank. Of course, Frank and I both have pretty

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Speaker 3: so when we got together, it was just like whoa, whoa.

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Speaker 3: But I did say to him by the way when

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Speaker 3: I first met him. By the way, I just want

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Speaker 3: you to know that I'm only dating you because I'm writing

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Speaker 1: And I was crash falling. I thought, oh my god,

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Speaker 4: I mean, you meet up somebody and they're they're better

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Speaker 2: That is so cute.

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Speaker 3: We just hit it off immediately. But Frank's got a

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Speaker 4: Yes, I am a divorcee.

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Speaker 1: So I had a divorce about always about a year

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Speaker 1: and a half before, and I was really thinking, well,

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Speaker 4: I'm kind of old, you know, let me.

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Speaker 1: Go back online because I met my wife online and

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Speaker 1: I thought, well, okay, let's let's see. I was I

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Speaker 1: was just about ready to give up and go into

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Speaker 1: a senior community, you know, and and then kind of

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Speaker 4: That they do with old people, you know.

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Speaker 1: So but then I saw her profile and I said, wow,

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Speaker 4: So, and she was better in person than on.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's it's something cute too that you

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Speaker 2: said like that one guy did the guy that ghosted you,

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Speaker 2: we kind of have little check ins every once in

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Speaker 2: some things and he's like, I don't know how anyone

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Speaker 2: you know. And that's that's the beautiful thing of you

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Speaker 2: don't think that you're gonna or at least for me,

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Speaker 2: like I didn't think. I remember. Actually this morning, I

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Speaker 2: obviously and kind of just see like you know, how

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Speaker 2: it's press and everything. But one of the chapters when

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Speaker 2: I was writing in when I got divorced, I was like, well,

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Speaker 2: will I ever be loved again? Will someone ever?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: Will I ever be happy? And will I ever will

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Speaker 2: I basically ever, you know, find love again? And I

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Speaker 2: think so many people when they have, you know, either

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Speaker 2: or embrace the you know, the flaws and the and

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Speaker 4: And I think most people go through that, Yes, yeah.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's you know, beautiful that you know

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Speaker 2: to look at you guys too. You guys have obviously

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Speaker 2: both lived, you know, and you've had a you know, husband,

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Speaker 2: and you've wife and married all the things. But yet

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Speaker 2: because so many people get so cynical about it and

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Speaker 2: even say to me like, oh, I don't know how

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Speaker 2: I'd rather have love in my life than not. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of how I look at it.

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Speaker 3: Loneliness is such an issue around the United States.

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Speaker 1: The biggest mental health issue for older adults is.

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Speaker 3: Lovely huge right now, and with COVID and all that.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's been kind of amazing. We've been really

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Speaker 3: happy with us the Golden Bachelor, because you know, he's.

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Speaker 1: Really highlights the possibility of finding a relationship.

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Speaker 3: Yeah after a loss, because you know, I think you

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Speaker 3: about this. I got more support as a widow than

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Speaker 3: divorced people do, far more support, and you know the

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Speaker 3: case and the divorce is such a loss too, well.

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Speaker 1: Wells feels like a failure, you know, and losing your spouse,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like a failure. It feels like you're

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Speaker 2: No, Well that's such a good point too, because I

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Speaker 2: was looking at some of my comments I wrote on

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Speaker 2: I get to marry you this year, and someone commented like, well,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like I didn't. I didn't

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Speaker 2: choose for him to cheat on me. I would have

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Speaker 2: loved to stay married. Yeah, I'm like, I don't like

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Speaker 2: the comments like that. I'm just like I didn't. That

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Speaker 2: wasn't the road I wanted. Having said that, I'm so

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Speaker 2: I'm so thankful now, Like I'm like, I'm thank you,

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Speaker 2: and it's like so I just it bothers me because

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well the other thing about a widow or a

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Speaker 3: everybody's like kumbayah. These two men, you know, they give

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Speaker 3: you support. Society says this is okay. But a divorcee

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Speaker 3: if this will work well? What about him where.

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Speaker 4: He's going to work out? And he's a divorce.

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Speaker 2: So then what made you guys want to write a

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Speaker 2: book together? Because that's like that I love that and

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Speaker 2: like and you know, the people that are listening, I

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Speaker 2: don't know, you know, I don't even think my mom

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Speaker 2: listens anymore to the podcast. But you know what is

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Speaker 2: some advice to for maybe our younger audience that is

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Speaker 3: Well. We I think our number one thing is to

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Speaker 3: say we believe that there's somebody out there.

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Speaker 1: For everything, there is someone out there, but finding them

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Speaker 2: I love you to you, guys. What is your favorite

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Speaker 4: Too much because you tell people buy the book and

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Speaker 1: It's through the Bedroom Door, which has to do with

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Speaker 2: I love, I love, love, love love that. That's amazing. Well,

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Speaker 2: thank you guys so much for coming on everyone, go

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Speaker 2: get open to love or releasing February fourteenth, The Secrets

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Speaker 2: of Senior Dating. So to my senior listeners, grab a copy,

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Speaker 2: and also to my little longer younger loves, grab it

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Speaker 2: for your mom, dad, whoever. Awesome. Thank you guys so much,

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Speaker 2: appreciate you, lovely talking to you guys. Thank you, bye guys,

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Speaker 2: Bye bye