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So listen , where are you stationed at ?

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Right now ? We're in balad Iraq . Yeah .

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Okay . So what uh , what , what , how

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does it feel not to be at home with

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your family , agree , sir , um about

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the same as last easter . So I see that

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you have a husband and your husband

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there with you or is he back here at

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home ? Um no , he's in calabar .

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Okay . So do you miss your mom and you

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miss your dad ? You miss your family ?

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Yes , I do . So what , so just

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what , what do you do over there ?

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What's your job ? Um I give information

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to um different people who need it for

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whatever reason . Now , is this is this

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something that is fulfilling to you or

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you , you know , I know that you're not

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happy to be there , especially on a

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holiday away from your family . But you

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know , is this something that , you

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know is doing good for the people over

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there ? Um Yes , I believe so .

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We do . Is good . Oh , good . Well ,

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what about the , I see that you are a

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big sports fan To seeing what your

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favourite 14 . How do you think about

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the Pittsburgh Steelers going to the

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Super Bowl and winning it actually this

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year ? Uh , that was awesome . Did you ,

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did you have anybody take the Super

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Bowl for you or anything ? You could

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watch it when you get back home ? Um No ,

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it was just by what people told me

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about it pretty much . I didn't even

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get to watch it at all . Oh , so what ,

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what are you looking forward to most

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whenever you get home ? Mm hmm . Um ,

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seeing my family , definitely . Um , my ,

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my horses . No , you're 20

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years old , is that correct ? That is

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correct . Okay . Do you have any kids

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marla ? No , I don't . Okay .

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Now . Do you , what is , uh , when do

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you anticipate on coming home ? Did

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they ever tell you ? Um , no , sometime

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in the fall of in the fall . So if I

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say that you've been there since when ?

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When was October 2005 ? Um ,

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yes . Since 2000 and five October Okay .

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And you and you are and you're already

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asked you where you're stationed at

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right now ? Where you're at ? Right .

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Yes . Okay . All right . So what , what ,

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uh , what do you want to say to your

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family for easter ? Because they're

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definitely going to get this ? I'm

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going to get to get a hold of them and

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give them this tape . So what do you

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want to say to them for easter that I

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love them and I want to thank them for

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being supportive and I wish that my

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husband was there . So that way I could

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tell him , you know , I'm happy that

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he's gone along with my dreams or join

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the army with me and my brother for

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also taking part in this war ?

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Is there any special message that you

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have for your husband ? But I love him .

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What , uh , what is it ? So is

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everything okay ? What are you guys

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doing out there for Easter ? You guys ,

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celebrating in any kind of way ? Yes ,

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we are we had like a little cookout for

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our unit three nights . So what kind of

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food you get , burgers ,

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steak good , is that is it different

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than what you can happen ? Um Yeah

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it is a little bit different . So what

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do you miss about the most is here from

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the du bois area ? What do you miss

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about the most about home ? Um Mhm . My

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car ran around in the car . I missed

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that . Well I know that you know I have

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some people that I know that have been

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over there and they say that they miss

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what you know they missed quite a few

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things coming back to America but the

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one thing that they miss the most is

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the fact that they take used to take a

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lot of things for granted over here

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that a lot of people do And so is that

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kind of how it is over there is you

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just look at it and say God I wish I

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was home because the United States is

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so great . Yeah . Yes , the United

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States is great but um you know

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it's all about just staying in the game .

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I love it . So what uh

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what what are you do you have any

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hobbies or anything that you do ? Um

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Not really um work , work take up most

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of my time . So what what is

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the what's the worst thing that you've

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had to go through so far in your

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deployment because you've been there

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now , they , you know , since october

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so what's the worst thing that you've

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had an encounter ? Really ? Um here in

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an economy is not that bad . I really

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don't feel like I went through anything

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that was like real bad . Yeah . So what

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uh so describe what what's going like

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describe to us , the people within our

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viewers and stuff were I mean all of us

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are still , we see what we see on tv

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but you know , describe to us what it's

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like over there and and and how

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different it is and what people don't

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realize . Um well what's different is

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that we don't get to go home to our

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families at the end of the day . We

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just basically do everything and it's

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all one day at a time and you just got

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to stay motivated and remember who your

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friends are . Yeah , they're like are

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extended family over here , they keep

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you together when you feel bad or

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whatever . Now you're in the army ? But

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are you , are you enlisted or you this

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is the the National Guard or what ,

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which were on active duty army .

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And what when did you get ? When did

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you pull into the army ? Did you go ,

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Rocker high School ? Mhm . Um actually

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it was after um it was October of

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04 is what I joined . I was best terms .

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Now you came in now you went in knowing

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that we're in what we were in a war and

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basically you know did that ever deter

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you from joining the army ? Is that

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we've got something that you wanted to

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do was part for your country ? Yes

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definitely . That was that was why I

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joined . I actually signed up on

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September 11 of 2004 . So

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what what do you have any feelings ? I

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mean just talking to you , I mean what

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do you have any feelings about the

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people back here ? And I know that

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there are so many people that say they

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support the truth and everything but

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they don't support this war . Is that

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something that's hard for you guys to

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handle over there because you just wish

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that everybody would realize what your

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what your main goal was over there ? Um

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No it doesn't it doesn't affect us .

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So how many people were in your unit ?

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How many people um in my

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unit ? Only ? Probably 50 . Around 50 .

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Okay . And then they all from any of

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them from like pennsylvania or this or

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this area of the U . S . Or a lot of

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them just spread out um there um from

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all over because we're in active duty

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unit . It's it's a lot different than

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like a reserve unit . Okay .

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Was there something else that you know

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my questions are kind of limited . I

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pretty much asked everything that I

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wanted to . So is there anything that

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you want to talk about ? Anything that

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you want to say ? I mean this is going

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to go out to all of our viewers , all

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of your friends from high school , all

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of the people that know you . So what

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do you want to say to them that I don't

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want to thank them for being supportive

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and just staying in contact with me .

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Which has been really helpful . Mm

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pretty much in you know what ?

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It's really hard for me to hear you .

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So I'm kind of relying on the tape

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whenever I see it . So um do me a favor

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and say your phone number just one more

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time so I can make sure that I have it

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correctly . It is

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8145835405 .

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Okay . Alright , marla , is that is

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that pretty much , is that all you want

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to say ? Yeah , that's pretty much it .

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Alright , marla , will you have a great

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day , Happy easter . Thank you so much

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for all of the work that you're doing .

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You're welcome . All right , you take

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care of yourself and come home safe