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Speaker 1: Um that's kind of from you just fundamentally, what can

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Speaker 1: your relationship with him? Um? College, We just created it

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Speaker 1: So we've kept in contact, and obviously when I got here,

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Speaker 1: you know, love Damien him. Yeah, oh yeah, I mean

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