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Speaker 1: and it's just so many things that are going on

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Speaker 1: like every day that's crazy. It's something. But I can

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Speaker 1: tell you the amazing thing about relative justice. People who

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Speaker 1: Some days where with some cases, I'm laughing so hard

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Speaker 1: Everybody in the audience is crying. To live against a crying.

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Speaker 1: So every single day is different. We have experts that

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