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Speaker 2: The Michael Verie Show is.

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Speaker 3: On the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry's Mood. I can

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Speaker 4: It's The Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 2: July fourth, seventeen seventy six.

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Speaker 5: The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America,

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Speaker 5: the Declaration that colonies would be states when, in the

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Speaker 5: course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people

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Speaker 5: to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,

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Speaker 5: and of Nature's God entitle them. A decent respect to

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Speaker 5: the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the

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Speaker 5: causes which impel them to the separation.

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Speaker 2: We hold these truths to be self evident, that all

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Speaker 2: men are created, that they are.

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Speaker 5: Endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.

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Speaker 2: Rights that cannot be taken away.

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Speaker 5: It cannot be separated that among these are life, liberty,

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Speaker 5: and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights,

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Speaker 5: governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from

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Speaker 5: the consent of the government. That whenever any form of government.

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Speaker 5: We're looking at you, King, it comes destructive of these ends.

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Speaker 5: It is the right of the people to alter or

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Speaker 5: to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its

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Speaker 5: their safety and happiness. The signing of that document, it

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Speaker 5: is amazing how prophetic these words became. And for the

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Speaker 5: support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the

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Speaker 5: protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other

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Speaker 5: our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor, and they

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Speaker 2: Happy Birthday, America.

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Speaker 3: This is a.

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Speaker 6: Song about of America, the greatest country ever born. It's

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Speaker 6: a song about freedom and liberty and you and me.

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Speaker 3: He is the thief.

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Speaker 7: Happy Birthday America. Happy birthday to read what Blom. Happy

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Speaker 7: birthday to food and did the cheval Legs. Happy birthday

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Speaker 7: to Eagles, Happy birthday to Faceball as well.

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Speaker 6: Happy birthday, Statue.

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Speaker 7: Of Liberty, Liberty Man.

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Speaker 6: America is the home of Uncle Sam at fireworks and

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Speaker 6: kidneys and bussel cars. It's a place where malt Rushmore

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Speaker 6: is on the mount rushmore things that are fat ass.

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Speaker 2: We remember the Alamo and eleven.

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Speaker 3: To Coffee Show, and Dale R and Harks.

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Speaker 8: Biggie both drive in rubies, apple Pie's blue jeans, and

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Speaker 8: we thank God for the Emancipation Proclamation, reinvented the freaking Internet,

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Speaker 8: rock and roll, barbecue, chewing skull, bandits, smoke, get in

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Speaker 8: the Bandit, the hulme of Mark Twain, slam.

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Speaker 6: Dump, Starbucks, stars and strikes, the Constitution, phill wrights a wife,

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Speaker 6: an awesome national anthem, Betsy Ross, the super Bowl monopolies,

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Speaker 6: dig up trucks, the Simpsons, Oh Frisbee Golf, the Golden

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Speaker 6: Gate Bridge Scores, Harley Gavis and motorbikes, yellow Stone slipping

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Speaker 6: slides into steeds, cooking, pull the flip clops in that

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Speaker 6: San Diego chicken thing, and the Breeners in Milwaukee. We

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Speaker 6: gotten the Great Lakes and a great salt Lake full

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Speaker 6: of our brother and sister Mormons, roller coasters, hump Um, Bubba,

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Speaker 6: bubble dump, big League.

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Speaker 2: Chewed Fine and Clyde.

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Speaker 6: Really theous freedom, freedom of the press, free speech, you get,

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Speaker 6: these hipsters get Bugler's tree huggers.

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Speaker 2: We got gay folks getting.

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Speaker 6: Married coast and goes, and that's just fine with most burritos,

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Speaker 6: the size of pillows, Elvis Presley, Pick Star Cowboys and Ins,

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Speaker 6: Michael bay Buch hit Up, Willian Nelson is a hero.

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Speaker 6: States where you can legally smoke weed, but not by

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Speaker 6: others Day where you can fight it but not smoke it.

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Speaker 2: It's still others where you can't do either.

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Speaker 6: And that's just fine because America Rooty, Rudy, depression, fruity

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Speaker 6: the freedom of anywhere else.

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Speaker 3: On this yere planning.

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Speaker 6: So we may not be perfect, that we're about us

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Speaker 6: dam close as it gets, and we may make more

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Speaker 6: serial killers than other countries. Oh, we also make Apple computers,

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Speaker 6: mostly overseas, but they're still ours, and we send billions

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Speaker 6: We often send our troops that don't want to go

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Speaker 2: And welcome them home with Ottlevin arms.

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Speaker 6: So when people from other countries bitched you for being American,

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Speaker 6: just kill them a funny look and kill him. You

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Speaker 6: can't bear them over the sound of your freedom, and

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Speaker 6: you can't read their lips because the liberty is blinding you.

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Speaker 3: This is America.

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Speaker 2: Our greatest export is thought. And all those that want

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Speaker 2: to call Lady Liberally their home get in line.

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Speaker 3: It's awesome here and we will love you like.

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Speaker 2: Our own child.

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Speaker 3: Once you enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: In writing America, it's time to believe it's great.

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Speaker 5: America is unique in that it offers anyone and everyone

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Speaker 5: the opportunity to succeed.

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Speaker 2: You can come from nothing, and if.

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Speaker 5: You study and you work hard, and you sacrifice, and

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Speaker 5: you delay gratification you make good decisions, you can be successful.

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Speaker 5: That is the American dream. Opportunity. It's not guaranteed, it's

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Speaker 5: not assured, the opportunity to fail and then try again.

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Speaker 5: That's why people from all over the world make their

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Speaker 5: the Shining City upon a Hill. What a beautiful line.

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Speaker 5: One thing that we used to take for granted was

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Speaker 5: is John Wayne talking about American opportunity. I love the

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Speaker 5: stars of film and television singing God bless America.

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Speaker 2: At the end, boy, I wish we could.

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Speaker 3: Have that again.

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Speaker 1: American opportunity has no limits has been known.

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Speaker 3: To knock more than once. How about you, very young.

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Speaker 1: People who see a tough life ahead. Well, when Lee

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Speaker 1: By the time he was twenty eight, he became president

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Speaker 3: At six years.

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Speaker 1: Old, Nickey Mantle was settling for a base on ball.

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Speaker 3: Night.

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Speaker 1: Charles Lindbergh was flying a kite, wondering how it feel

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Speaker 1: was thinking the piano lessons had never end. How many

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Speaker 1: of you are pushing fifty and complaining that the country

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Speaker 1: when he died on State Street in Boston, fighting for

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Speaker 3: And John F.

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Speaker 1: Kennedy was forty four when he asked not what his

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Speaker 3: Well, a fellow by the name of Eisenhower, who had.

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Speaker 1: Already lived one lifetime as a soldier, was re elected

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Speaker 1: by now I've made my point, or I never will. Oh,

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Speaker 1: there's one other thing. Every man and woman or child

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Speaker 1: I've ever known, met, seen, or heard of wants one

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Speaker 3: Not one thing is tomorrow. Tomorrow. That's the only thing

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Speaker 1: And I believe this, If tomorrow all of us, every

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Speaker 1: this is my country and I'm going to do good

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow. Remember, this is my country and I'm going to

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Speaker 3: unless we give it a fair try.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's one other thing I'll say tomorrow, because

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Speaker 1: I say it every day of my life.

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Speaker 3: God bless America. Stand beside.

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Speaker 4: Guy through the night with a line along.

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Speaker 3: To the very shall go less man, my all.

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Speaker 1: Tree, God less man.

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Speaker 3: Because lan I love from the all.

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Speaker 2: God.

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Speaker 4: Quiet.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Michael Berry Show. I have a

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Speaker 5: Fourth, we have stage actor Max MacLean reading one of

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Speaker 5: the greatest documents ever written, the Declaration of Independence.

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Speaker 2: I know you've read it, I know you've heard it,

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Speaker 9: In Congress July fourth, seventeen seventy six, the Unanimous Declaration

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Speaker 9: that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,

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Speaker 9: that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Speaker 9: That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men,

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Speaker 9: That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these airs,

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Speaker 9: it is the right of the people to alter or

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Speaker 9: long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.

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Speaker 9: And accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind are more

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Speaker 9: disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right

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Speaker 9: But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing

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Speaker 9: invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them

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Speaker 9: under absolute despotism. It is their right, it is their duty,

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Speaker 9: to throw off such government, and to provide new guards

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Speaker 9: for their future security. Such has been the patients sufferance

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Speaker 9: constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The

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Speaker 9: history of the present King of Great Britain is a

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Speaker 9: history of repeated injuries and usurpatients, all having in direct

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Speaker 9: To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

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Speaker 9: He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome

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Speaker 3: It is July fourth, and.

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Speaker 2: We're reminded that Johnny Cash.

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Speaker 5: Wrote a song about patriotism as the Vietnam War was

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Speaker 5: and then he recited that Ragged Old Flag. Something beautiful

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Speaker 3: But she's in good sheep for the sheep.

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Speaker 10: She's in because she's been through the fire before, and

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Speaker 10: We raise her up every morning, and we bring her

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