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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoyed today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: blessing and share it with a friend.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 2: My Lord, we are excited to be in your presence

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Speaker 2: and in the.

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Speaker 3: House of the Lord. Amen.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever had an opportunity presented to you and

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Speaker 2: you said no, No, I don't want to do that, No,

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Speaker 2: I can't do that. Maybe you didn't think you were qualified,

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Speaker 2: or maybe you thought there was someone else better for

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Speaker 2: the job, or maybe you just didn't have the resources.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's numbers of reasons that we say no

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Speaker 2: when certain opportunities present themselves. But then have you ever

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Speaker 2: done that and then later got to thinking, Uh, what

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Speaker 3: I wish i'd have done that. Maybe I could have

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Speaker 3: done that.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever wrestled with the no before thinking maybe

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Speaker 2: I could, Oh, maybe I should. You see, I'll never

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Speaker 2: forget one time when Joel's father was the pastor of

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Speaker 2: the church back in the old building, and we were

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Speaker 2: worshiping God. It was in the middle of our worship,

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Speaker 2: just like we were doing today. My hands were up,

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Speaker 2: I was praising God. When I opened my eyes, Joel's

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Speaker 2: father had turned around in his seat and looked at

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Speaker 2: me and said, Victoria, why don't you go up and

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Speaker 2: do the prayer time? Well, he wasn't talking about next

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Speaker 2: week or the next week. He was talking about the

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Speaker 2: end of the song that was just about over. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure I looked at him because I had never even

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Speaker 2: remotely given him the thought that I wanted to get

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Speaker 2: on the platform and do the prayer time. I don't

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Speaker 2: even know where he got that, but I'll never forget

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Speaker 2: chuckling with a nervous laugh, and I said, uh, daddy, O,

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Speaker 2: I don't think so, you know, in his sweet gentle way,

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Speaker 2: he just smiled at me. He turned around, and he

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Speaker 2: never said anymore to me during that service. You know,

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Speaker 2: I remember standing there thinking I didn't need to get

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Speaker 3: But when I got home, I was wrestling with that.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: I was so disappointed in myself, and really, quite frankly,

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Speaker 2: I was mad at myself because I thought to myself,

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Speaker 2: if if he thought I could do it, why do

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Speaker 2: I think that I can't do it?

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Speaker 3: If someone has faith in me? Why don't I have

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Speaker 2: And I went back, and I went forth, and I

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Speaker 2: went back and I went forth. And as I was

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Speaker 2: wrestling with that, I realized that that no just wasn't

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Speaker 2: satisfactory to me. So I began to dig deep, because

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Speaker 2: on the inside of me, I realized there was a yes,

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Speaker 2: but it was buried under fear. It was buried under

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Speaker 2: the pretense that I could not do it. It was

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Speaker 2: buried under the thought, why does anybody need to hear

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Speaker 2: from me? You see, that no was not satisfactory to me.

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Speaker 2: So I begin to dig up my yes, and I

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Speaker 2: begin to say, I want to do it, God, help

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Speaker 2: me do it. God, I don't want to give you

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Speaker 2: my yes. And through that struggle, I had to make

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Speaker 2: if he ever does, I'm gonna prepare and.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be ready.

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Speaker 2: So every time I'd go to church, I'd be praising

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Speaker 3: Maybe not today, Lord, but not today. Lord. You know,

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Speaker 3: he did ask me again. He did ask me again,

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Speaker 3: and you know what I did.

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Speaker 2: I mustard that great big yess and I got up

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Speaker 2: and I did the prayer time.

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Speaker 3: You see what that yes did for me. It kicked

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Speaker 3: in God's grace. It caused me to begin to rely

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Speaker 2: I prepared, but then I allowed the grace of God

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Speaker 2: scripture that says that God is working in us to

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Speaker 2: will and to do his good pleasure. When you realize

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Speaker 2: when you realize that is not always the case, but

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Speaker 2: If you will get into agreement with God, God can

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Speaker 2: do amazing things in our lives.

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Speaker 3: But God needs our yes. He needs to hear our yes.

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Speaker 2: When I think about how that yes kicked in and

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Speaker 2: gave me the power to be able to do that,

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Speaker 2: it was it was a very much of a learning

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Speaker 2: experience for me, because see, I didn't realize at the

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Speaker 2: closer to my destiny. That yes was one step closer

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Speaker 3: Now. The truth is, I don't.

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Speaker 2: Know how many times I ever got back up on

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Speaker 2: what that experience gave me, the courage and the boldness

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Speaker 2: when God asked me yes again. Listen, if you're struggling

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Speaker 2: no when God talks to you, maybe you don't think

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Speaker 2: there's a plethora of reasons that you can make excuses.

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Speaker 2: Can I tell you make a decision, just settle it

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give him my yests.

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Speaker 3: And I'm gonna prepare and move forward.

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Speaker 2: Because let me tell you something, Just like my father

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Speaker 2: in law asked me and I said no, he didn't

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Speaker 2: hold that no against me, and your heavenly Father is

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Speaker 2: not gonna hold.

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Speaker 3: That no against you.

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Speaker 2: You may have said no time and time again, but

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Speaker 2: I can tell you, just like my father in law,

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Speaker 2: God's gonna ask you again.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna ask you again.

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Speaker 2: So I encourage you to make a decision to give

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Speaker 2: God your yes. Hold on to the promises of God.

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Speaker 2: Listen to what it says. In Second Corinthians one twenty,

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Speaker 2: it says, for no matter how many promises God has made,

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Speaker 2: they are yes in Christ. And so through him we

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Speaker 2: speak the amen. Through him who speaks the amen, who

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Speaker 2: speaks the yes, we speak the yes. God's promises are

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Speaker 2: gonna stand forever. They will remain, But He is looking

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Speaker 2: for us to say yes.

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Speaker 3: He is looking for.

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Speaker 2: Us to take that step of faith, to say, God,

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Speaker 2: I'm all in no matter what it looks like.

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Speaker 2: The world does yes look like to you today? What

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Speaker 2: yes look like when you think about God. Yes, God,

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Speaker 2: I am going to forgive the people that hurt me. Yes, God,

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Speaker 2: I am going to trust you in this very difficult time. God,

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Speaker 2: can bring about favor in my situation.

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Speaker 3: Yes, God, I want to begin to reach out to.

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Speaker 2: People, even if I don't feel like.

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Speaker 3: I have time. God, I know that you can make

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Speaker 3: up that time for me.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you just need to surrender some things in your

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Speaker 2: life and say, yes, God, it is time for you

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Speaker 2: to work through me.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna quit try to doing it on my own.

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Speaker 3: And God, I'm just gonna say yes to you.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna take that step of faith God and let

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Speaker 2: you open those supernatural doors for me.

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Speaker 3: What does your yes look like today?

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Speaker 2: Because God is waiting on you to get into agreement

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Speaker 2: with him. And as soon as you say yes to God,

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Speaker 2: guess what the grace of God kicks in.

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Speaker 1: You.

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Speaker 2: See, you're not on your own. God doesn't want you

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Speaker 2: do it with Him in partnership and agreement with him.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, you can say yes. I think

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Speaker 2: about the Saints of old. They wavered in there yes,

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Speaker 2: They wavered in their no. One day they were believers,

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Speaker 2: the next day they were denying Jesus. Listen, God is

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Speaker 2: not gonna hold your no against you, but make some

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Speaker 2: firm decisions to say, I am gonna trust God in this,

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Speaker 2: no matter what it looks like, no matter how scared

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Speaker 2: my my spirit. I'm gonna dig it up. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: work it out. Because the Bible talks about this. It

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Speaker 2: says you have to hold fast your profession of faith.

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Speaker 2: You have to hold fast that yes. See, that indicates

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Speaker 2: that something is gonna try to take that yes from you.

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Speaker 2: And we're very well aware that time tries to steal

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Speaker 2: our yes. People try to steal our yes. All these

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Speaker 2: See, it's not just in your ability, it's in God's

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Speaker 2: I tell you is it gonna be easy? Absolutely not?

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Speaker 2: Is it worth it? Absolutely it is. God is a

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Speaker 2: When God came to Noah and spoke to Noah and said, Noah,

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Speaker 2: I want you to build an ark. Noah had no

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Speaker 3: It had literally never rained.

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Speaker 2: The theologians said, but you know what Noah did? He said, yes, God.

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Speaker 2: stay in agreement with God. Yes, And he kept building

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Speaker 2: He kept pounding the nails, He kept saying yes in

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Speaker 2: God's goodness, a sign of God's agreement. You see, we

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Speaker 2: your yes. I have a friend of mine who who

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Speaker 2: has a large family, many siblings, and she made a

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Speaker 2: And what I mean by that is she was gonna

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Speaker 2: let go of some of her past habits and she

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Speaker 2: In fact, they made ugly remarks to her. They literally

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