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Speaker 1: Get your heads together, and we're going to start to party.

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Speaker 2: Start.

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Speaker 3: I'm ready to party the Elvis Duran after Party.

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Speaker 4: It's the After Party Podcast. We're all here. There's Scotty

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Speaker 4: Bee in the Serial Killer studio. There's Danielle, there's Done Hello,

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Speaker 4: I see Scotty, Hi, and Straight and eight. We're all

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Speaker 4: ready to go. You guys ready for the big old podcast.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So Natasha is right here on the phone, and we

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Speaker 3: saw her text roll through and I'm just intrigued.

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Speaker 4: I love these stories. Hi, Natasha, Hi, good morning, Well,

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Speaker 4: good morning, welcome to the show. Listen. You sent the text.

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Speaker 3: It says Elvis, I was adopted and I got to

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Speaker 3: meet my biological sister this weekend, And of course we

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Speaker 3: have questions talk about it.

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Speaker 4: So how did you hook up with her? And what

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Speaker 4: was it like.

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Speaker 2: We actually both had done a twenty three knee tests

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Speaker 2: and connected about probably nine years ago, and we were

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Speaker 2: kind of actually pretty skeptical about it, just because we're

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Speaker 2: actually half sisters in the percentages are kind of weird.

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Speaker 2: So we did a second DNA test, went through ancestry

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Speaker 2: and connected against We were like, okay, it must be wow,

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Speaker 2: and were we were both kind of young and broke

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Speaker 2: at the time, so we'ren't able to connect at the time,

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Speaker 2: but she she took a road trip from Arizona this

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Speaker 2: summer and mean it happened, so it's pretty wild.

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Speaker 3: Wow, Now, did you did either of you see photos

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Speaker 3: of each other before you met?

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Speaker 2: Yes, we had connected on Facebook and kind of kept

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Speaker 2: in touch that way, and it's it's honestly kind of weird.

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Speaker 2: Even my daughter kind of resembled her, and it's it

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Speaker 2: was weird, like being across from each other in the room,

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Speaker 2: like whoa, you kind of looked like I love that. Now.

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Speaker 3: Were either of you a little skeptical about getting together?

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Speaker 3: Was there ever, like a moment of doubt or did

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Speaker 3: you guys even talk about that concept?

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Speaker 5: We did.

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Speaker 2: I think since we had been connected for so many years,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't as weird, Like maybe if we'd jumped into

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Speaker 2: it right away it would have been a little more

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Speaker 2: nerve wracking, but it was.

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Speaker 5: Like it was like we'd known each other forever. It

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Speaker 5: was really cool. We we had things in common right now, know,

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Speaker 5: like our favorite movie Snack, And there were a lot

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Speaker 5: of moments where we were like, oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: Me too.

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Speaker 5: Was interesting to play out.

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Speaker 1: Did you feel like, uh, not in a creepy way

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Speaker 1: at all, but like a chemical connection with her, Like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I just want to hug this person

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Speaker 1: so much. I feel I feel that we're related.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's.

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Speaker 5: Hard to describe, but yeah, it's just feel like we've

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Speaker 5: known each other forever.

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Speaker 4: I love that.

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Speaker 5: Very interesting.

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Speaker 4: It's that feeling you can't really describe it. It goes

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Speaker 4: on description. Yeah, what Nate, Okay, let's put.

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Speaker 6: This in reverse for a second. How exactly are you related?

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Speaker 6: You said you were kind of like half siblings. Was like,

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Speaker 6: whose dad? Was like explain that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're related on my mom's side. So there's

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Speaker 2: we actually found out through our DNA testing.

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Speaker 5: That there's four of us. So I'm the second oldest

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Speaker 5: and she's the baby of us four.

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Speaker 2: And then I connected with siblings from my dad's side

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Speaker 2: as well. I haven't met in person, but there's apparently

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Speaker 2: four of us on that side as well.

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Speaker 1: You need to like throw a big party.

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Speaker 3: There could be some secret ones out there too. So

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Speaker 3: how how did the separation happen?

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Speaker 5: From our birth?

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Speaker 2: Our adoption stories are kind of different, Like she was

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Speaker 2: given away through the state and that whole process. I

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Speaker 2: was less fortunate and kind of like abandoned at a hospital.

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Speaker 2: So they're different birth stories. So that was interesting to

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Speaker 2: kind of roll through too. But yeah, just a young mom,

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Speaker 2: I think having a tough time. I haven't really gotten.

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Speaker 5: To hear her whole story.

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Speaker 2: She's a little guarded with that, which is, you know,

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Speaker 2: her choice.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, wow, I didn't.

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Speaker 2: I don't really know any of that information until like

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Speaker 2: my mid twenties either, so we kind of just guessed

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Speaker 3: So we've heard stories of people who, through twenty three

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Speaker 3: siblings and they decide that they don't think it's for

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Speaker 3: the best that they connect for whatever reason they feel it.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's water under the bridge.

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Speaker 3: I can live the restaurant life without even going through

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Speaker 3: pain or anger sometimes. What is your advice for anyone

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Speaker 3: who's out there like thinking maybe I should reach out

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Speaker 3: to this person who I'm related to.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: That's hard to everyone's story is so personal to them

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Speaker 2: and their experience. I think every adopted kid will probably

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Speaker 2: relate to me saying that, like, even if you grow

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Speaker 2: up with a great family and have support, like, there's

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Speaker 2: still always kind of this whole of just unknowns and

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Speaker 2: kind of like hurt that you don't realize until you

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Speaker 2: really delve into it. I think you just have to

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Speaker 2: be open. And you know, my experience connecting with my

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Speaker 2: birth mom was not great, but you know, it was

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Speaker 2: kind of one of those things that I had healed

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Speaker 2: enough to kind of be like, Okay, I don't need that,

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Speaker 2: but I'm glad that I connected with her and got

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Speaker 5: And I think it's just so.

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Speaker 2: Personal to everyone, whether you need that or not, if

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Speaker 2: that makes sense.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Is there any plans to meet the other two siblings

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Speaker 1: or actually the other six siblings at any point?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 5: I don't know. There's it's kind of interesting. There's some

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Speaker 5: really big, for lack of a better term, political differences

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Speaker 5: on some sides of the family.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what I want to eat.

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Speaker 2: Okay, there's definitely two that I've really connected with and

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Speaker 2: would love to meet, So I think I think I'll

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Speaker 2: probably end up being about.

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Speaker 3: Half an Okay, Yeah, this is such an interesting story.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, scary, what's your thought?

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Speaker 7: So that's a question really, so is there was this

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Speaker 7: a relationship and maybe plan future trips with them and

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Speaker 7: you know, kind of go to the next level.

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Speaker 5: We definitely stout future connections.

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Speaker 2: She lives out in Tucson, which I've never been to,

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Speaker 2: and so, you know, my my mom was kind of

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Speaker 2: have the financial ability to keep connected. You know, she

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Speaker 2: found out she was an ant I have a thirteen

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Speaker 2: year old daughter, and says they were like besties right away,

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Speaker 2: to go see her new aunt Warren, and yeah, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: hopefully we'll keep it going.

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Speaker 4: What's up, mate?

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Speaker 6: Did you know you were adopted like I did?

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I wasn't.

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Speaker 2: So back in the day the laws were different, where

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Speaker 2: like foster parents couldn't actually adopt their foster kids. And

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Speaker 2: so my parents got me when I was around nine

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Speaker 2: months old, and we're able to actually adopt me until.

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Speaker 5: That was four.

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Speaker 2: So I was pretty I was pretty aware of everything,

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Speaker 2: so it's going on at that point.

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Speaker 4: Well, I love this story, by the way.

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Speaker 3: I love that, and I'm not going to say it

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Speaker 3: has a happy ending, but I'm sure there's a happy

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Speaker 3: end ending at some point. It sounds like it's it's

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Speaker 3: still growing. The story is still being told, and congratulations.

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Speaker 3: You sound like you are very, very very at ease

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Speaker 3: with all of this and very pleased that you two

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Speaker 3: made this decision to connect.

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Speaker 2: I like that, thinks, Yeah, it's been It's definitely been

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Speaker 2: a lifelong journey.

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Speaker 5: Is getting to go myself and all those pieces I've

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Speaker 5: never had. That's been cool.

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Speaker 3: Wow, pieces of your puzzle are being placed in the

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Speaker 3: proper place.

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Speaker 4: I love that.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for your time to Tasha. Thanks for sharing

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Speaker 3: your story with us and a lot of people listening.

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Speaker 3: I bet are going, oh my god, she's encouraging me

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Speaker 3: to go out there and connect.

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Speaker 4: I love that.

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Speaker 5: Thanks for listening to it.

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Speaker 4: Thank you it, Tasha. Have a great day. The Elvista

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Speaker 4: Ran after party.

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Speaker 5: H