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Speaker 1: for y'all today. As you know, we are l A based,

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Speaker 1: city and this year, for this episode in particular, we

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Speaker 1: are really excited to bring back our Latinas in politics

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Speaker 1: segment or Latinas in politics um series. And so we're

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Speaker 1: going to be talking to on A Nandez who's running

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Speaker 1: going to tell us a little bit more about her. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Aoni says is a very very very exciting fresh face

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Speaker 1: in l A politics. She's running for, like the USS said,

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Speaker 1: a city council seat against incumbent Gil Sadillo, who has

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Speaker 1: A City Council District one is socio economically and racially diverse,

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Speaker 1: representing core parts of northeast and northwest l A, including

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Speaker 1: building a team. I started a nonprofit called La Defensa

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Speaker 1: But you know, most of our teams are fans. Most

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Speaker 1: of these fans are doing political work, campaign work, and

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Speaker 1: when you look at my campaign team, I also was

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Speaker 1: very intentional there where we are queer lead, women of

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Speaker 1: color team. Most of our most of our colleagues who

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Speaker 1: learn these campaign skills so that they can launch their

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Speaker 1: you know, fundraising directors because oftentimes we're left doing the

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Speaker 1: legwork without actual opportunity for driving wages or good titles.

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Speaker 1: And so that's I mean gender justice both in policy

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Speaker 1: but even in the teams we create, right, we have

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Speaker 1: to be very very intentional about that because the patriarchy

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Speaker 1: to have, you know, these opportunities, so we got to

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Speaker 1: create them for ourselves. I appreciate you breaking down your campaign,

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Speaker 1: your team, the your board, the folks that have endorsed you,

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Speaker 1: because it also speaks to like your coalition building and

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Speaker 1: the organizing and the intentionality behind like creating a campaign

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Speaker 1: that's different from the incumbent and like the legacy politics.

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Speaker 1: So can you just give our listeners out there a

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Speaker 1: sense of how they can support, how they can learn more,

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Speaker 1: how they can get involved. Plenty of our listeners likely

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Speaker 1: live in your district because it's right in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the city of Los Angeles. It's a pretty huge

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Speaker 1: core district, and um, it's a really big deal that

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Speaker 1: you're running at the time that you're running. So for

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Speaker 1: those listening, how can they get involved, how can they support,

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Speaker 1: how can they be part of team? Only says yes,

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Speaker 1: So just do you on no timeline. We have fifteen

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Speaker 1: days or fourteen days now until ballots drop, which is

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Speaker 1: on May nine. If you're registered to vote, you should

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Speaker 1: be receiving a mail in ballot starting that week. If

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Speaker 1: you haven't registered to vote. This is your how do

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Speaker 1: I say this? Your law arm clock to to register

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Speaker 1: the vote now, it takes less than five minutes on

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Speaker 1: your phone. And we need everybody to tap in because

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Speaker 1: it's a non presidential election year and so the voter

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Speaker 1: turnout might be low, and we need everybody a historic

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Speaker 1: amount of votes, a historic amount of support to be

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Speaker 1: a corporate Democrat who has literally taken half a million

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Speaker 1: dollars from developers and real estate and so we you know,

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Speaker 1: we've already not the district once, but we're not in

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Speaker 1: the district again two and three times. So if you

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Speaker 1: love walking outside, talking with people and just having a

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Speaker 1: good time, you know, interacting with folks, then please go

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Speaker 1: onto our website and nieces dot com and register so

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Speaker 1: you can canvass. We're canvassing Monday through Friday every and

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Speaker 1: actually Saturday, so every day every day of the week

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Speaker 1: we canvass, but our biggest days are on the weekends.

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Speaker 1: If you don't like to go outside, if you don't

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Speaker 1: want to talk to someone in person. We're also doing

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Speaker 1: phone banks, virtual phone banks where we're gathering in teams

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Speaker 1: every day online on Zoom and just going through a

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Speaker 1: call list and calling people we're also if you don't

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Speaker 1: want to do calls, we're also hosting up postcard writing parties,

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Speaker 1: or you can host a postcard writing of your own.

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Speaker 1: But we're having our team right postcards to to voters

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Speaker 1: here in the City of l A into the district

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Speaker 1: because we want to create. We want to meet people

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Speaker 1: at where they're at, at every single level, whether it's postcards,

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Speaker 1: was on the phone, whether it's text, whether it's at

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Speaker 1: the door, whether it's you know, MacArthur Park every Saturday

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Speaker 1: morning that I'm there trying to talk with us. Mass Like,

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Speaker 1: there's many lanes. If you're an artist, you want to write,

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Speaker 1: you want to write poems, or you want to create

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Speaker 1: our visual or whatever it is. Everybody has a has

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Speaker 1: a lane in this campaign because it's gonna take everyone

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Speaker 1: to be this incumbent um. This incumbent is this is

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Speaker 1: an epitome of the establishment of the patriarchy of matches

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Speaker 1: More and of not a lack of leadership. Nine years

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Speaker 1: we've had the same representation and we don't have much

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Speaker 1: to show for it. We're not safer, we don't have

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Speaker 1: more people housed, and that's why it's time for us

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Speaker 1: to go into city Hall. And so please now is

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Speaker 1: the time. And oh the last thing is our race

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Speaker 1: will be decided in June. We are not going to

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Speaker 1: a November. I know folks are saying, oh, I'll type

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Speaker 1: in closer in November. But only him and I made

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Speaker 1: it on the ballot. So whoever gets the most votes

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Speaker 1: in June wins. There is no after. We don't get

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Speaker 1: another chance at this until so please tap in now.

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Speaker 1: This is incredibly urgent. Wow only says thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for putting that context into this race, into why

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Speaker 1: you're running, and also a sense of urgency because it

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Speaker 1: is urgent. L a city is in a crisis right now,

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Speaker 1: and so, you know, very excited to chat with you

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Speaker 1: and talk with you today about your platforms and also

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Speaker 1: like a huge major announcement today you were endorsed by

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Speaker 1: the labor leader and civil rights activists the the Lodes.

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Speaker 1: So can you congratulations first of all, and secondly, can

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Speaker 1: you tell us about that process and how are you

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Speaker 1: feeling right now? Oh? Yeah, I'm feeling so good about

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Speaker 1: that endorsement. Oh you know, I met the Lord is

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Speaker 1: with them uh my through a mutual friend Jasmine and

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Speaker 1: he and many years ago we met the lottest um

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Speaker 1: and I had posted about her meeting her and you

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Speaker 1: know that experience of meeting an icon, meeting someone who

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Speaker 1: has sacrificed so much. That's for someone like me, for

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Speaker 1: people that are like me and us to be able

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Speaker 1: to become lobbyists, to be able to take a political

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Speaker 1: space and be experts. And so I had posted about

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Speaker 1: that in and you know, I had shared that with

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Speaker 1: her team. I shared that with her because I didn't

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Speaker 1: know which way she was gonna go. You know, I'm going,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I'm going against them incumbent who many

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Speaker 1: people are afraid of, who many people in the establishment

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Speaker 1: have endorsed because that's what they do. You endorse the

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Speaker 1: incumbent and her for her to step up and be

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Speaker 1: brave with me, Oh, I can't tell you how that feels.

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Speaker 1: It's been really difficult to see, you know, a lot

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Speaker 1: of Latino leadership moving the other direction because that's what

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Speaker 1: you do with the status quo. And so I'm feeling

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Speaker 1: incredibly energized, supported, uh and reinforced, like you know, we're

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Speaker 1: doing the right thing. And you know, the loads is

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Speaker 1: someone that is that someone I look up to because

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Speaker 1: she has evolved, you know, she is someone who takes

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Speaker 1: information and you can see throughout her life how she's

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Speaker 1: taken that and has evolved her analysis in her way

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Speaker 1: of thinking about things and positions. And that is important

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Speaker 1: because that means she's open to change and not staying

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Speaker 1: in the same stat is core same ineffective um and

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Speaker 1: ineffective solutions and policy. So I'm I'm so happy, I'm

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Speaker 1: so grateful, and I'm so excited because this, this is it.

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Speaker 1: This means a lot, you know this for me, this

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Speaker 1: this means so much for the people. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for stopping by look at our radio and chatting

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Speaker 1: with us, so our so our constituents, so our listeners

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Speaker 1: could get our listeners get to know you and your platform,

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Speaker 1: your potential future constituents. Um, everybody, please give aonis As

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Speaker 1: a follow. She's all over social media, she's online, she

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Speaker 1: has a website and um dang, what else? Get out

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Speaker 1: there and vote. Make sure you registered to vote. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if uh, there are some of our listeners

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Speaker 1: maybe who haven't maybe haven't voted in a city council

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Speaker 1: election before. I know, not everybody has right, So make

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Speaker 1: sure that you registered to vote. That step number one

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Speaker 1: and make sure you get those ballots in UM. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining us and uh good luck.

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Speaker 1: We hope you win. We are also actually before we leave,

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Speaker 1: we're formally endorsing on SUSUM as a podcast as look

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Speaker 1: at our radio just you know us and Dolores you

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Speaker 1: know come true we um. We were waiting for Dolores

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Speaker 1: to drop her news before we dropped ours. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much, Onis for stopping by look at our radio,

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Speaker 1: for sharing your platforms with us to our listeners as

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Speaker 1: well sharing your time and energy. We know that you're

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Speaker 1: out there putting in the work, connecting with people, connecting

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Speaker 1: with your community, and so we thank you for taking

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Speaker 1: the time to come by and share with us. Thank

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Speaker 1: you all. Thank you Mala Rsel for sharing your platform

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Speaker 1: with me, for allowing me to share. And you know

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Speaker 1: it's just you sense surgency, you see it, and you

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Speaker 1: stepped up and helping. And thank you for also standing

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Speaker 1: in the light and being brave with me, because it's

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Speaker 1: gonna take all of us to beat this mountain. So

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Speaker 1: I am eternally grateful. Thank you