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Speaker 2: She recently had a talk with her girlfriends oh and

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Speaker 2: she she asked her a question, which was, will you

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Speaker 1: That is a big question. It might even be called

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Speaker 2: We are so excited for you, Keegan and your partner.

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Speaker 2: And also we're just so happy that we got to

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Speaker 1: That, yeh know. Yeah, I'm glad that we could uh

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Speaker 1: be that part of your lives? People? The Okop fam

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a It's a great thing. That's a great

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Speaker 1: from friends. No, it is not bad friend. I'm a

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Speaker 1: I was a fresh member of the crew, and that

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