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- I knew only four of us were going to make it

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and I was looking at the competition,

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I honestly didn't think I was gonna make it.

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When they told me I made the team,

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^I had the biggest smile on my face

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^and I think second to getting my

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appointment letter to the academy,

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it's the happiest I've been.

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Can't have pets here at all, so I don't

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get to bring my dog from home, so I went and got a falcon.

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The academy is always going, going, going,

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you always have a thing that you have to do,

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there's never really a lot of time off.

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But, when I'm down here, I don't think

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about anything other than the birds.

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The first two weeks that I had her,

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she really was pushing, see how little she could do

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to still get the same amount of food.

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But, slowly throughout training

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and we got to know each other a lot better now,

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we work together a lot better so,

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it wasn't always like this but, it's slowly come in way.

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I think our connections grew a little bit.

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My relationship with Diva, it's a real interesting one.

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I love her with all my heart and

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I only want the best for her but,

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she's a bird of prey, she's a really solitary animal

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so she doesn't really feel that love, like a dog would.

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So the only reason she really listens to me

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is because I feed her every single day

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and I feed her after she does a job well done.

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A real interesting one, but I love her

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as much as I would, a dog.

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Definitely, I wanna leave my passion behind

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to these incoming falconers,

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eventually take over these birds.

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I wanna show them how much work it could take,

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how much you can love them and how

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many benefits you can get out of this program,

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travel the country, the world.

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The biggest thing I think is,

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if you have a passion for these birds,

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falconry is definitely the best.