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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast

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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast.

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Speaker 3: Today.

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Speaker 2: I am joined by my good friend and somebody who

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Speaker 2: went on the whole pretty much the whole Bachelor journey

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Speaker 2: with me, Carly Wadell.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Carly, how you doing good?

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Speaker 2: So I'm just gonna like, I don't start off these

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Speaker 2: podcasts gently, like I don't Ben like eases everybody into it.

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Speaker 3: I'm just like, let's just get to it, okay, Carly.

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Speaker 2: So we're just talking about the Golden Bachelor on the

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Speaker 2: Headlines episode with you and you were talking about like

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Speaker 2: it's never too late to find love and you have

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Speaker 2: been you've been divorced legally for like two years now, yes, okay,

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Speaker 2: So like are you dating?

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Speaker 3: Do you want to get married again?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Yes? Okay great? Would you have kids? Would you have

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Speaker 3: more kids?

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Speaker 4: Uh? Maybe? Okay almost forty? I don't want to do

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Speaker 4: it after him forty, But I do have frozen eggs

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Speaker 4: that changes you want to do?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So I guess like if you find a guy that

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Speaker 2: hasn't doesn't have like any of his own kids and

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Speaker 2: he really wanted them, you could use the eggs.

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Speaker 3: Yes, cool?

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Speaker 2: You're right, just an interrogation, okay, but like, let's talk

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Speaker 2: about dating. Have you gone on a date within the

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Speaker 2: past two years with anybody that you were like, I'd

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Speaker 2: like to be in a relationship with them?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Are you in a relationship right now? Like that she's

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Speaker 3: dating someone? How long has it been?

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Speaker 4: Like four months?

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Speaker 1: So not?

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's great? Yeah, okay, awesome. Can you give us

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Speaker 2: like any hints?

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Speaker 4: You know, he's older than me, he's which was what

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Speaker 4: you wanted. It's exactly what I wanted. He's like literally

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Speaker 4: everything I've ever wanted in a human. But you know,

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Speaker 4: like we were talking on the Headlines episode about like

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Speaker 4: keeping stuff private, and I just feel like, for as

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Speaker 4: long as I can, I'm going to do that. But yes, no,

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Speaker 4: I am definitely seeing one human.

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Speaker 3: So this is kind of like a soft launch. Thank

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Speaker 3: you for giving it to the Almost Famous podcast. Has

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Speaker 3: he met the kids?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Do they like him?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? They love him?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: So is it a friend of mommy's or is a

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Speaker 2: boyfriend now?

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Speaker 4: And it's boyfriend?

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Speaker 5: Cool?

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Speaker 4: Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: I'm so happy for you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you're so happy. You're so happy.

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Speaker 4: I know. It's kind of crazy. It's it's crazy because

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Speaker 4: he met me when all this, Like I feel like

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Speaker 4: the last couple years have been really like I've just

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Speaker 4: been like and even like there's not been a lot

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Speaker 4: like now it's like tours are happening and music's happening,

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Speaker 4: all this crazy stuff, and I'm like, whoa, you met

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Speaker 4: me at the craziest time. But he's like so supportive

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Speaker 4: and like it's so great to have around when like crazy,

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Speaker 4: I feel like it's happening in my life. But no,

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Speaker 4: he's great.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't it always happen like that, like the time that

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Speaker 2: you don't expect, like the time that you probably were like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: this is all about me. I'm releasing music, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: go on a tour. You're like, yeah, this is a

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Speaker 2: this is my moment, and now you have somebody to

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Speaker 3: With, which is great.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Are you open to telling us how you guys met?

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Okay, you're ready for a ridiculous story. Okay,

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Speaker 4: So I watched like I watched the Today Show all

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Speaker 3: Me too. It's my morning routine, A little coffee and

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Speaker 4: we also have like a Today Show in Nashville, and

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Speaker 4: like being interviewed about his business on then his local

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Speaker 3: But it wasn't for like.

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Speaker 4: A week, but I was like, oh gosh, I'd like

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Speaker 4: this is so stupid, Like he can't be obsessed with

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Speaker 4: some guy I saw on TV. That's so ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: You're talking to the wrong person.

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Speaker 4: You of course, I'm like, not again, you know, And

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Speaker 4: then I found him on it. I found his business,

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Speaker 4: I was like, man, I was like, that's like he

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Speaker 4: days later, he liked this old video of Charlie from

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Speaker 3: In and I was like gosh, yes, and.

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Speaker 4: So then like another week passifying I was out with

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Speaker 4: then I just slid into his DMS and said, Eloela,

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Speaker 4: are we just going to keep liking each other's stuff?

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Speaker 4: And then he said he said, I want to be

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Speaker 4: I would love to call you, and I was like okay,

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Speaker 4: and then yeah, our first date was like like I

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Speaker 4: remember I called my mom and I was like, I

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Speaker 4: don't know what's gonna happen with this man? But I

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Speaker 4: will measure up every first date to what that was

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Speaker 4: like from now on, because it was just like unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's so special. Yeah he was married before.

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Speaker 4: No, he's been engaged, but no kids, no kids.

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Speaker 3: I like the giggles.

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Speaker 2: We'll we'll let you reveal everything else because my initial

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Speaker 2: Oh are you writing songs about him? Is he inspiring music?

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Speaker 4: You know what I haven't. I've been to like preoccupy

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Speaker 4: with all the other stuff. But yes, I want to

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, your music is so good. If you guys

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Speaker 2: have not checked out Carly's music, you can just type

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Speaker 2: in her name on Spotify and Apple Music. It is

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Speaker 2: and it's just it's beautiful. I love it. And what

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Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, you know, when I was going through

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Speaker 4: But really it was just like I was trying to

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Speaker 4: like find myself again. I feel like I got lost

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Speaker 4: with both of those things, but then coming out of it,

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Speaker 4: I was like, well, the thing I've always said is

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Speaker 2: in just like you consider yourself like friendly co parents?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we don't have to talk that much

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Speaker 4: I mean we're doing it the best way we know how.

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Speaker 4: So we're getting it done. We're doing it. Our kids

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's good, very wonderful. So you are on tour now,

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Speaker 2: done the You've opened for Nick Carter.

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Speaker 4: Yes, So Nick Carter invited me to his first to

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Speaker 2: Like did it just work out so well in Nashville

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Speaker 4: Again, Paul, here's Paul again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, Paul has been very supportive of this

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Speaker 2: And you know he he loves the Nick Carter team

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Speaker 4: Well they're so nice. But so anyway, he was they

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Speaker 4: were looking for somebody to like come, you know, to

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Speaker 4: you have to have Carly on there. And then they

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Speaker 4: started listening to my music and then they kind of

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Speaker 4: Boy fans, and yeah, they're like wait a second, like

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Speaker 4: we would love to have her like continue with us.

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Speaker 4: And so with then like it was Paul saying, hey,

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Speaker 4: National Show? And I was like, what are you talking about? Absolutely,

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Speaker 3: And I was like, what are you doing?

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Speaker 4: So fast? So, I mean, it all happens so quickly,

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Speaker 4: So it we're like me and the girl is going

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Speaker 4: with me to play guitar? Is actually my nant? Well

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Speaker 2: But I have to read the book. And I also

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's way more. Yeah, I need to know all

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Speaker 4: I'm like, when did you start writing this? Like right

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Speaker 5: And it's like, okay, so so did you did you exactly?

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Speaker 5: Like did you really tell the stories to the ghostwriters?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 3: All right, but interesting stuff.

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Speaker 2: But you know, when you get two millennials together, you

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Speaker 4: I'm doing a Britney Spears song on my set.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's cool and stuff.

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Speaker 3: So a great role model, a great model.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, you're yeah, wait till like they learn

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Speaker 2: Actually I have to tell Dawson this now because he's

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Speaker 3: Well, who's your dream like next person to open for?

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. I mean I think that one of

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you. I just think that'd be so

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Speaker 3: Carly is a great singer. Name you guys are great.

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Speaker 4: I was named after Carly Simon, So there we go.

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Speaker 3: Well, of course you can go on. So guys check

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Speaker 3: out her music right now. It's so good it is. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I get ready, Sash, just type in her name into

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Speaker 2: you success in all of this and with your new boyfriend.

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Speaker 3: Love you so much. I'll see you in about two weeks.

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