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Speaker 1: strings of income. Please welcome to my show, Wendy Raquel

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Speaker 1: And how's my best friend doing? How's my best friend? Oh? Buddy,

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Speaker 1: I am great, I am great. I'm blessed, I am blessed.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited for you. I was just listening to your

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Speaker 1: Congratulations of being a part of this series. It's called

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Speaker 1: The Grand Hotel. UH premiers January seven. In June seventeenth,

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Speaker 1: on a Monday seventeen, now five days later on June two,

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Speaker 1: Gospel super Fast TV. And they they got you back,

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Speaker 1: got you coming back? Now come on that Praise the Lord.

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Speaker 1: a ride your own fire. Please understand that. Get in

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Speaker 1: you're telling? This changing lives, That that happens for people

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