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Speaker 1: what's up, Mike. Everything's great. Happy holidays to you in

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Speaker 1: what do you miss most about You're something up here

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Speaker 1: so uh, I can't say I had a lot of

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's fun to have a different, different or

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Speaker 1: during the Christmas season. But you look more than anything

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Speaker 1: on this, Uh, I had a lot. I built a

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Speaker 1: lot of great relationships, um you know in New England,

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Speaker 1: to uh you know even you know Stacy James and

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Speaker 1: I think we've grown a lot. Um. Obviously, we've had

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